The document discusses the brain and how neuroscience technology has helped researchers understand its inner workings. It describes various brain imaging technologies like MRI, PET scans, and EEG that have enabled seeing inside the brain. It also summarizes some key areas of the brain like the left and right hemispheres, lobes, neurons, and regions involved in functions like memory, language processing, and the five senses.

1. The Brain: How does it work? Carla Piper, Ed. D. Brandman University

5. The Left Brain versus the Right Brain Argument Simplification of a Very Complex Neurological System Go to Neuroscience for Kids

8. Left Brain

9. Right Brain

13. Brain Activity by Age Stages of Development Through Sensory Experiences in the First Year

21. Synaptic Connectivity

24. Language and Images of the Mind

28. The Five Senses How do we come to know the world? Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World "Everything we know about the world comes to us through our senses. Traditionally, we were thought to have just five of them— sight , hearing , touch , smell , and taste .” Howard Hughes Medical Center http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

29. Memory The Brain from Top to Bottom Stimulus Sensory Organs Sensory Memory Millisecond to Second Short-Term Working Memory Less than a minute Long-Term Memory Days, Months, Years Perception Attention Forgetting Repetition

30. Long Term Memory Long Term Memory Implicit Explicit Emotional Conditioning Procedural Skills Episodic Autobiographical Events Semantic Words, Ideas Concepts Declarative Non-Declarative Priming Conditioned Reflex Unconscious Association

31. The Complex Brain

32. Illustration