Neuroscience
Nerves are also called, what?
Messengers
What are the five senses?
Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell
What are the two different kinds of memory?
Short-term and Long-term
True or False?: Sometimes we forget things on purpose.
True
Our brain is the ______ of our body!
Superhero and/or Supercomputer
Which part of the nervous system is like a highway?
The spinal cord
Perception is how the brain interprets all the _________ it gets.
Information
True or False?: You can train your brain to get better at things.
True.
Sensory
What are the three sensory organs that send information to the brain?
Eyes, ears, and skin
____ are the cells that make up the basic building blocks of the nervous system.
Neurons
Different parts of the ___ help us make sense of the different senses.
Brain
The brain learns by making new _______ between brain cells (called neurons).
Connections
The ____ lobe helps us think, plan, and solve problems.
Frontal
____ is the brain’s way of making sense of all of the information from our senses.
Perception
Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system, especially the ____.
Brain
What can trick your brain into thinking something looks different than what someone else might see?
An optical illusion
Our brain uses the ____ lobe to help us think about problems and make decisions.
Frontal
The _______ is the part of the brain that helps us learn and store memories.
Hippocampus
The brain uses neurons (___ ____) to send messages and make decisions.
Brain cells.
How many lobes in the brain did we learn about?
four
Sensation: special cells that detect things around us send signals to the brain through ____.
What is the word for the brain’s ability to change and form new connections?
Neuroplasticity
How can you improve memory? (At least say two of the correct words).
Practice, sleep, exercise, and/or healthy eating
Sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell help us _____ the ____!
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