Sensory Showdown Lets learn about the brain Label

Sensory Showdown Let’s learn about the brain!

Label your regions of the brain and write bulleted information inside the given lobe as we learn

The Frontal Lobe: your conscience • • Make decisions between good and bad Recognize future consequences of current actions Make and act out goals Holds emotional memories, modifying emotions to fit societal norms • Determine similarities and differences • Speak fluently

Frontal Lobe in the teen brain • The brains “white matter” enables nerve signals to flow freely between different parts of the brain. In teenagers, the part that governs judgement is the last to be fully connected around age 20. • The frontal lobe that asks “ what are the consequences of this action? Is this a good idea? ” is there but the nerve cells that connect teenagers frontal lobes with the rest of their brain is sluggish (slow). • Teenagers don’t have as much of the fatty coating called myelin “white mater” that adults have in the frontal lobe. • Its like insulation on an electrical wire. The nerves need myelin for the nerve signals to flow freely. With less white matter there is slower communication between one part of the brain and another.

The teen brain on drugs • Because the adolescent brain is still forming new connections it is “excitable” responsive to everything in the environment, taking it in and bulding new connections. This is a good things helping you learn quickly! • However, if you introduce drugs and alcohol into your brain they slow the connections and can affect attention span and your ability to comprehend and interpret visual informaiton as well as memory. • When looking at brain scans of teenagers who engaged in drinking only 1 -2 times a month there were breaks and

Frontal Lobe • Make decisions between good and bad • Recognize future consequences of current actions • Make and act out goals

• Th The Parietal Lobe: sensory information • Spatial understanding and navigation (maps) • The parietal lobe processes sensory information from around the body in seconds – Takes Information about taste, temperature and touch integrates them and processes. – Touch pressure temperature and pain

Frontal Lobe • Make decisions between good and bad • Recognize future consequences of current actions • Make and act out goals Parietal Lobe • Processes sensory information from around the body in seconds • Taste, temperature and touch integrated and processed.

The Occipital Lobe: what you see • Raw sensory data comes in through the retina in the eye and is interpreted by the occipital lobe. • Color discrimination • Motion perception

Frontal Lobe • Make decisions between good and bad • Recognize future consequences of current actions • Make and act out goals Parietal Lobe • Processes sensory information from around the body in seconds • Taste, temperature and touch integrated and processed. Occipital Lobe • Color discrimination • Motion perception

The Temporal Lobe: what you hear • The brain downloads sounds and speech from the ears. The temporal lobe makes sense of the sounds and types of sounds we hear every day. • Formation of long term memory and sorting of new information

Parietal Lobe Frontal Lobe • Make decisions between good and bad • Recognize future consequences of current actions • Make and act out goals Temporal Lobe • Hearing • Speech • Memory • Processes sensory information from around the body in seconds • Taste, temperature and touch integrated and processed. Occipital Lobe • Color discrimination • Motion perception

Create a model of the brain Just make two fists and place your knuckles together, thumbs facing you

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