Your Brain Map: 84 Strategies for Accelerated Learning

Go to the link below to review the parts of the brain.  Answer the questions below by navigating through the simulation.

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/learning-strategies/

Cerebral Cortex

What do the frontal lobes do?

The frontal lobes control your personality, and works with problem solving, memory, language, judgement, and impulse occurs.

What is the relationship between selective attention and learning?

Selective attention makes your working memory capacity greater as it allows you to prioritize important information.

What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating? 

Frontal lobe is the last part of your brain to develop. You can do exercises such as not zoning out and transforming information instead of memorizing it to prevent your brain from deteriorating.

What does the neo cortex do?

The neo cortex helps you navigate your body. it controls your senses, awareness, and motor skills.

What is the role of the pre frontal cortex?

The pre frontal cortex controls your personality. It organizes your thoughts and actions to match with your internal goals.

What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking?

The pre frontal cortex works with many functions at the same time and is one of the most important parts of the brain.

Which part of the brain is associated with speech and language development?  Give an interesting fact about this region.

Broca's area is associated with speech and language development. It is associated with learning a second language. It gives the brain a "workout"

Which part of your brain is responsible for thinking the following: “Is it hot in here or is it just me?” Somatosensory cortex

What does your visual cortex do for you?

The visual cortex helps differentiate colors and distinguish complex things.

State three interesting or significant facts about your occipital lobe.

1. It helps you process with long and short term memories.

2. It is the brains visual processing center.

3. it collects visual data and routes it to other parts of your brain.

What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged?

If they were damaged, you would have absolutely no long term memory.

What is your “fast brain” and what does it do?

It is an area that your brain picks up information very quickly. They are known as the eye fields.

Neuron

State 3 things that you could do that would influence your synapses, and have a positive affect on your life and health.

1. Exercise

2. A healthy diet

3. Socializing

What is the relationship between multi-sensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites?

When the data stored in your brain converts the new knowledge from something you have memorized to something you have learned, this is known as multi sensory or multi modal learning.

How does “big picture thinking” and mnemonics affect dendrites and/or learning?

big picture thinking is needed to fully comprehend a subject and breaking it down into its relevant parts is useful.

Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very important.  Justify your reasoning.

Dopamine is very important because it increases your sense of pleasure and without it you would not be interested in learning new things.

Limbic System

What does the corpus callosum do?

It is a fiber that helps the left and right hemispheres of your brain communicate.

What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum? 

Music can help to strengthen the conversation between the two hemispheres of your brain but you must practice frequently.

Why is the thalamus important?

The thalamus is responsible for motor control, sensory information, memory, emotion, and consciousness.

Relate and Review 

Summarize what you learned from this tutorial.  Relate what you learned to your everyday life and how you can make it better.  Use at least 5 of the bolded words from the questions.  5-sentence minimum. You may use the back of this if needed.

This tutorial was very interesting because i never knew the brain was so in depth. The cortex that i found most interesting was the sensory cortex since it focuses specifically on your 5 senses. I was also surprised to learn that the frontal lobe was the last part go your brain to develop. Also, i didn't know that there were exercises to help you stop the lobe from deteriorating. The part i struggled most with was neurons because it was so complex and hard to understand. I learned that exercise and a healthy diet influences your synapses in a positive and healthy way. Lastly, I also found that the corpus callosum in the limbic system was very fascinating because it helps the left and right hemispheres work with each other.