Your Brain Map

1. The frontal lobes manages your behavior.
2. Selective attention is the ability to focus on specific memories, and more selective attention is best for learning because it helps generate better memory
3. The last part of the brain to develop is the frontal lobe, to keep it healthy focus on reasoning rather than memory.
4. The neo cortex controls your senses, sense of direction, and motor skills.
5. The prefrontal cortex is what determines personality.
6. There is no such thing as multi tasking its just your brain changing tasks very quickly, seeming almost simultaneous
7. Broca's area controls communications like speech and language. If it is damaged, other parts of the brain can work to try take over the damaged areas responsibilities.
8. The somatosensory cortex responds to environmental factors like temperature.
9. The visual cortex corresponds with vision and processes images seen with the eyes. 
10. The occipital lobe manages creativity or imagination. It also understands the difference between short and long term memories.
11. Without the temporal lobe, you would have amnesia and no way to hold onto memories long term.
12. Your 'fast brain' obtains signals and info in milliseconds.
13. Omega-3 fatty acids, socializing, and healthy living (exercise) help for healthy synaptic function.
14. Patterns and memory aids like mnemonic devices help decomplexify dendritic pathways and allow your brain to work/remeber faster.
15. Big picture thinking also simplifies dendritic pathways resulting in faster brain function. 
16. Oxytocin is important because stops the body from over stressing.
17. The corpus callosum holds your left and right hemispheres together.
18. The corpus callosum is made stronger by playing music.
19. The thalamus receives the signals from senses and send them to the cortex to be processed.
Relate and Review!
This homework assignment was a great review. We have covered many of these terms in class already but there were some new ones like oxytocin and the broker's area. The brain is constantly working thats why the idea of multi tasking seems possible because the brain moves that fast. It's important to keep the brain healthy and strong especially during it's development. I learned that the frontal lobe develops last so that is one to focus on. Many of these structures were seen during our brain dissection but it is always nice to reinforce the information.