2. Bigger brains are smarter brains
You only use about 10% of your brain Brain Myths
Sleep aids memory formation
You can grow new brain cells
Hit or shit?
Bad diets can cause brain damage
Thinking bad things can make you sick
You can be brain dead but remain alive
The brain is the most complex structure in the known universe
There is a you part of the brain – a bit that controls the rest
The brain is partly made of fat
No two nerve cells in your brain actually touch
Your brain uses electricity to think
Depression is a physiological disease
3. Bigger brains are smarter brains (only between species, sorry big heads don’t mean
your smart!)
You only use about 10% of your brain
Sleep aids memory formation
You can grow new brain cells
Bad diets can cause brain damage
Thinking bad things can make you sick
You can be brain dead but remain alive
The brain is the most complex structure in the known universe
There is a you part of the brain – a bit that controls the rest
The brain is partly made of fat
No two nerve cells in your brain actually touch
Your brain uses electricity to think
Depression is a physiological disease
4. Get a feel for the brain….
Adult brain weighs about 1.5kg
It has the consistency of cooked oatmeal
If spread out flat it would cover about 6 pages of the
age newspaper
You are born with all of the nerve cells you will ever
have, about 100 billion
Your brain grows connections between nerve cells,
making your brain more dense
Every single brain cell can form connections with
around 10,000 other nerve cells
7. The Human Brain
The brain is the control center for all human behaviour,
without understanding our brains and nervous systems we
can never fully understand behaviour.
Some scientists argue that all human behaviour can be
traced to biological functioning.
Our Brains are our most important organ, they make us
who we are.
The bigger an organisms cortex the more intelligent it
seems to be – this is NOT true within species
Whether or not the brain is the sole seat of consciousness it
is most certainly part of the puzzle……
Learning and Memory involve physical changes in your
brain!
11. The hemispheres of the Cerebral Cortex
The cortex is made up of two separate but linked
hemispheres (halves)
Each hemisphere (left or right) is responsible for
movement and sensation in the opposite side of the
body.
Each hemisphere is also involved in specific functions
i.e. the left side controls our ability to use and
understand language
The two hemispheres are linked by a bundle of nerves
(neurons) called the Corpus Callosum
12. The Cross over….
Left controls Right
Right controls Left
No one knows why so don’t
ask!
This diagram is from the
back
Note sexy yellow budgie
smugglers
14. The Lobes of the cortex
Each hemisphere of the cortex can be divided further into 4
lobes (Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, Temporal) FPOT
These lobes are also responsible for specific behaviours, i.e. the
frontal lobes control emotional behaviour, planning etc.
These Lobes also receive and processes information from a
particular sense.
Occipital lobes = visual information,
Temporal lobes= Auditory (sound)
Parietal lobes= somatosensory (body and skin)
Frontal lobes. This lobe is involved in initiating movement of
the body, They are the only lobes that do not process info from a
specific sense are the
15. The Lobes of the cortex
These lobes cover both the left and right
hemispheres – Note that hemispheric specialization
still stands (eg. Left hemisphere predominately
involved in language)
Left frontallobe – speech production – motor
movement in frontal lobe
Left temporallobe – speech comprehension –
auditory info in temporal
16. Read / skim through pages 177 – 182 and complete the
following in your workbooks:
L.A 4.1 => Questions 2,3,4,5 & 6
L.A 4.2 => Questions 1, 2 & 3
17. The Four Lobes of the Cerebral
Cortex
Read from 182 – 198 and complete the following:
L.A 4.3 – Complete in pencil in your textbook
L.A 4.6 – Complete in pencil in your textbook
L.A 4.7 – All questions (Question 2 – a rough sketch
will do)