1 Why is the story of Phineas Gage considered so extraordinary? What does his story teach us about the brain? Phineas Gages’s story is so extra ordinary because a metal rod was impaled through his head and destroyed most of his frontal lobe. His story has taught us that different parts of the brain control different things and the part of his brain that got injured effects a person’s memory‚ personality‚ and emotion. 2 New research is using functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)‚ a scan of
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Running head: BRAIN-BASED LEARNING AND PLAY Brain-Based Learning and Play Wanda Dix University of Phoenix Early Childhood Play Theories ECH 542 Professor Dr. Sharon Ray February 8‚ 2008 Abstract The following paper will explore the meaning of brain-based learning and play. The definitions‚ history‚ some of the core principles and implication of best teaching techniques will be address.
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Brain and Languages. By the sense of hearing‚ is how we learn to speak and communicate. The audible speech perception is produced in the rotation Heschl in the right and left hemispheres. Understanding how the brain works can help us to learn another language more easily. Language occupies its own section of the brain. Actually‚ there are two main areas; Wernicke’s area allows us to understand words spoken to us and Broca’s area allows us to speak to others. This information is transferred to
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Words formed into melodies have been the most powerful message‚ allowing people to comprehend emotion for over 5‚000 years. The way words are placed between beats gives a hypnotic message to your body and changes the state of your brain. But is music just that? A series of notes and precisely placed words? This is what I have set out to discover. What effect does music have on humans? When listening to a good song you feel a sense of relaxation and calm within your body. Often we stop what we’re
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The Key to Pathological Gambling Treatment is the Brain; You Can Bet on It! Alcoholism‚ substance use disorders‚ and process addictions‚ or behavioral addictions such as pathological gambling may affect the brain in the same way‚ according to some experts. Research at Imperial College London has identified two areas of the brain that scientists believe cause pathological gambling. The study showed that the connections in the brain responsible for impulse control may be weaker in problem gamblers
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In the reading we examined and debunked the myth of some people being left- brained and others being right- brained. They explain that the laterality of function means that one or the other hemisphere of the brain can perform or process certain mental tasks better than the other side. This is only true to those who have undergone a “ split brain” operation. The split brain phenomenon refers to a surgical processor that involves surgeons cut the corpus callosum that connects the left and right hemisphere
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Depression Depression can be a very difficult and painful experience that affects not only the individual suffering from it‚ but also the people around them. As a biological psychological factor‚ genetics play a big role. Mood disorders are inheritable for some people. Those that are susceptible to mood disorders can have an early age of onset‚ a greater rate of suffering other disorders in addition to depression and an increased risk of recurrent illnesses. However any genetic factors that are
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Music Response Models: How do people move to music? This is basic level research of all the processes from music perception and recognition to the effects of rhythm on the way that people dance or move their bodies to music. After sound reaches the eardrum‚ it sets into motion of a complex combination of mechanical‚ chemical‚ and neural events in the cochlea‚ brain stem‚ midbrain nuclei‚ and cortex that result in a percept. The cerebellum plays a role in remembering the “settings” that can be used
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Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s is an irreversible‚ unexplained disease. It slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and‚ eventually it destroys the ability to carry out simple tasks. Most people with the Alzheimer’s start experiencing symptoms in their early 60s. The disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. In 1906 Dr. Alzheimer had a patient that died of an unknown mental illness. Before she died she had memory loss‚ language problems‚ and unpredictable behavior. After she died Dr. Alzheimer
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“Science has shown that when children learn to play music‚ their brains begin to hear and process sounds that they couldn’t otherwise hear.”(Locker ) This statement by Melissa Locker is continuously backed up by multiple reliable sources from various scientific journals throughout the internet. Even though violent music can cause people to have violent tendencies‚ music is very beneficial to your brain because music helps your brain to maintain its plasticity and music helps our brains to be able
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