1. 500 pound gorilla vs.
150 pound human
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2. How much do each of their brains weigh?
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3. Gorilla’s Brain = 1 pound Human’s Brain = 3 pounds
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4. Brain to Body Ratio 1:500 Brain to Body Ratio 3:150
If the human brain were of the same ratio as the gorilla’s, our brain would only weigh 5 ounces!
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5. OBJECTIVES: ● List consequences that can occur if
the frontal lobe is damaged.
● Discover how verbal tasks interfere
with right-handed motor skills – results
of the Kinsbourne & Cook study
(1971)
● Describe condition known as agnosia.
● Identify which parts of the brain were
activated while viewing a video clip.
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6. (Humming the Star Spangled Banner)
Temporal Lobe “Hearing” Demonstration
(Humming the Star Spangled Banner)
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7. FRONTAL LOBE
CORE OF THE PERSONALITY
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8. FRONTAL LOBE If damaged, here’s a likely list of consequences:
Inappropriate emotions
Socially unacceptable behaviors (usually meaning fewer inhibitions)
Inability to make long-range plans
Easily distracted
Difficulty integrating facts
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9. FRONTAL LOBE Example of a person with frontal lobe damage:
He/she goes into the bedroom to make the bed, becomes distracted by the wallpaper, which he/she decides need to be changed, and rips it down!
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10. Hemisphere Dominance Demonstration
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11. Kinsbourne & Cook Study - 1971
Subjects completed a verbal task while balancing a wooden rod on either the left or the right finger.
Subjects were able to balance the rod longer on their left finger than on their right.
Apparently, a verbal task (left-hemisphere skill) interferes with a right-handed motor skill (a left-hemisphere motor-strip task).
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12. Imagine gazing at a running shoe, taking in the laces and the color of the stripes, drawing the shoe on a big piece of paper with crayons, yet not being able to identify the object as a shoe…
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13. AGNOSIA…. AKA: Mindblindness - Results from brain injury
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14. If a person with agnosia is able to feel the object (however), he/she can then name the object without hesitation.
Several senses need to be stimulated in order for a whole picture to develop.
Some people develop facial agnosia, where they may not be able to identify their own family members until they hear their voices.
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15. OBJECTIVES: ● Describe what the Broca’s area is and
results if the area is damaged.
● Discover which of your motor strips is
dominant.
● Describe the Mozart effect.
● Name/list famous left-handed people.
● Describe what split brain is & how it
affects a person with a split brain..
● Discover how to utilize both sides of
the brain while taking notes.
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16. Wernicke’s Area
Broca’s Area
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17. Question:
If both a woman and a man have a stroke that damages this area (Broca’s area), who is more likely to recover?
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18. Question:
If both a woman and a man have a stroke that damages this area (Broca’s area), who is more likely to recover?
Brain imaging techniques reveal that many women process speech and language in both hemispheres, so a woman is much more likely to recover her verbal skills.
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19. WERNICKE’S area is located in the left temporal lobe and is involved in the process of understanding (processing) words we hear spoken.
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20. Exploration – Motor Strip Dominance
Make tallies under these categories:
Left Right No Preference
when I ask you the following questions…….
(Go with what comes first/naturally.)
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21. Exploration – Motor Strip Dominance Which hand do you write with?
Which hand holds scissors?
Which hand holds a hammer?
Which arm goes first into a jacket?
Which arm goes into the loop of a backpack/book bag first?
Which hand is on top when you clap?
Which hand deals out cards?
Which foot kicks a ball?
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23. Kasey Kahne & & Tom Cruise David Archuleta
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24. A number of studies have show the
In 1998, Governor Zell Miller of Georgia made sure every baby born in his state received an audiotape with classical music on it.
A number of studies have show the
positive effects music can have on the
brain and this was one attempt at
applying some of these findings.
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25. THE MOZART EFFECT
Study done at the University of California at Irvine.
Researchers found that listening to Mozart prior to completing a spatial task improved spatial reasoning.
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26. SPLIT BRAIN David McNeil (@University of Chicago)
Left-Hemisphere seems to specialize in linguistic coding: Syntax & Grammar
Right-Hemisphere seems to specialize in imagery, which may be reflected through gestures.
During discourse, it’s common for split-brain patients to speak, pause, then gesture, then resume speaking again.
CONCLUSION: BOTH HEMISPHERES ARE INVOLVED IN LANGUAGE.
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27. SPLIT BRAIN – Story Problem
Split-Brain Sam is blind-folded. With his LEFT hand, he picks up a bell. He feels it… He rings it…. He knows it’s a bell.
Would he be able to SAY it is a bell?
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28. Story Problem (Answer)
SPLIT BRAIN –
Story Problem (Answer)
Since he CAN HEAR it, since BOTH EARS hear the bell, both hemispheres also “hear” it, and the talking left-hemisphere would be able to say, “It’s a bell.”
HOWEVER, if he just picked it up and did NOT ring it, Split-Brain Sam probably would NOT be able to verbalize that the object name is “bell.”
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29. Kent State (Front Campus)
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30. Kent State (Front Campus)
HIPPOCAMPUS = MEMORIES
Kent State (Front Campus)
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