THE BRAIN PARTS OF THE BRAIN The brain
THE BRAIN
PARTS OF THE BRAIN • The brain is largely not understood! • There are many regions of the brain that we don’t know what they do
BRAIN STEM • Breathing • Digestion • Circulation • Heart beat
CEREBELLUM • Walnut sized lobe • Controls movement, balance, coordination
CEREBRUM • This is the largest part. It is divided into four lobes • Frontal- reasoning and thinking, motor skills • Parietal- processing tactile sensory information such as pressure, touch, and pain • Temporal lobe- interpreting sounds and the language we hear, memory formation • Occipital lobe- interpreting visual stimuli and information
HYPOTHALAMUS • Temperature control • Thirst and hunger
AMYGDALA • Emotion, especially fear • The fight or flight response
SIGHT • Humans heavily rely on sight as our primary sense • The occipital lobe is responsible for interpreting what we see • Sometimes our eyes deceive us though because… 1. Our brain interprets the signal weirdly 2. We have trained ourselves to look at things a certain way 3. Or both! • http: //dsc. discovery. com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/humanbody-sight-optical-illusions. htm
SIGHT ACTIVITIES • Try each activity and try to explain what is going on • Decide if its your brain, your learning or both that make this image an optical trick!
MIND ILLUSIONS • http: //www. pbs. org/wnet/brain/illusions/index. html
What area of the brain is responsible for interpreting vision? SIGHT
SIGHT • http: //www. teachersdomain. org/asset/tdc 02_vid_vision/ • How important do you think the sense of vision is compared to the other senses?
SIGHT
SIGHT
COLOR AND LIGHT • Color is detected by cones. We have three kinds: red, blue and green. • Light is detected by rods • Both are found on the back of your eye on the retina
BLINDNESS • Blindness can be caused because a part of your eye does not work, or it does not communicate with the brain • http: //www. wimp. com/blindsight/
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