Monday, January 31, 2011

The Brain


Decided to do more research on the human brain. As this should give me more inspiration and ideas surrounding memories. I should do a spider diagram soon too!

The brain monitors and regulates our body's actions and reactions.
The Brainstem controls our breathing and heart rate.
The Necortex, is the centre of our thinking, learning and memory.
The Cerebellum controls our balance, posture and coordination.

Topographic maps are the adjoining bits of the cortex that correspond to the adjoining parts of the body.

"The brain is incapable of feeling pain".....hence you can not tickle yourself, because your brain knows that it is you!! weird!

Sleep is very important as it is when the brain 'files' away our memories.
During sleep, you are virtually paralyzed as your brain creates a hormone that prevents you from acting out your dreams.

The left and right hemispheres.

Left:

Language.
Processes in a logical, sequential order.
List maker
Right handed
All muscles controlled on right hand side of body

Right:

Visual
Processes intuitively, holistically, randomly
Music
Non-verbal
left handed
All muscles controlled on left hand side of body




This 'test' is meant to determine which side of the brain is stronger/more dominant in you.



However it is only an optical illusion and the brain processes the visual image to make sense of it. Therefore your brain will just assume it is spinning either clockwise or anti-clockwise, this doesn't then necessarily mean that side of your brain is more dominant.

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