What is the most important three pounds of stuff in your life? If you said your laptop, your cell phone, and your ipod, you're wrong (or at least, you should be). It's your BRAIN! Yes, this mass of tissue and neurons and chemicals and electrical energy dominates everything about you. Without it, you'd be food for the buzzards. And so, let us begin the journey into the most important thing in our life: our brain.
To start off, let's look at a picture of a brain (from the website):
Obviously, your brain isn't this colorful normally. But since we're going to dicuss the lobes of the brain, the colors will come in handy.
Let's start off with the frontal lobe. This lobe is associated with "intellectual" stuff, like reasoning, emotions, problem-solving, parts of speech, and movement. Found it! Here's an article talking about how we teens act the way we do- it's because our frontal lobes aren't fully connected with the rest of our brain. Doesn't that explain a lot? The next lobe, the white one, is the parietal lobe. This is where we process touch related things, such as pressure and pain. The next lobe is the occipitual lobe, where we process information related to vision. Finally, the green lobe is the temporal lobe, associated with memory and hearing. Of course, your brain is probably snoozing at this point (and I want to get started on my Physics title page) so I'll put more information in The Brain, Part Two. Just keep in mind, though, that the brain is a complicated organ and that these are simply lobes in the brain.
To sum up:
Frontal Lobe: Your reasoningParietal Lobe: Your touch center
Occipitual Lobe: Your sight center
Temporal Lobe: Your memory and hearing
Information from: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/lobe.html
Did mini-meds get you interested in the brain?
ReplyDeleteNo, I've been interested in the brain for... a couple of years. If you go back to some current events on my blog, some of them will be about the brain.
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