Brainsics
This amazing organ is the control center for your body.
What is the brain?
This lobe at the front of your brain helps you plan and think
What is the frontal lobe?
These brain cells are the speedy messengers of your brain
This sense helps you see colors and shapes
This type of memory lasts less than a minute and holds a small amount of information.
What is short-term memory?
This kind of super scientist studies the brain
What is a neuroscientist?
This part of the brain allows you to hear
What is the temporal lobe?
These cells wrap around neurons to make their messages move faster.
Your tongue has these small bumps that help you taste food.
What are taste buds?
This part of the brain looks like a seahorse and helps make long-term memories
This part of your nervous system acts like a highway, sending messages between your brain and the rest of your body.
What is the spinal cord?
This brain area is damaged if someone can't see
What is the occipital lobe?
These helpful cells give neurons food and support.
What are astrocytes?
These tiny things in your nose help you smell things
What are olfactory receptors?
This is a disease that causes memory loss in people over 65 and involves forgetting more than just where you put your keys.
What is alzheimer's disease?
This is why some brains look all wrinkly like a raisin.
This part of the brain would help you balance on a tightrope
What is the cerebellum?
These brave cells protect the brain from invaders.
What are microglia?
These are the five basic tastes your tongue can detect.
What are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami?
When you can't remember what happened before an injury, it is called this type of amnesia
This type of imaging helps scientists see inside the brain without surgery
This brain area is damaged if someone cannot move their right arm
What is the left motor cortex?
This part of the neuron catches the signals from other cells.
What are dendrites?
This part of your ear looks like a tiny snail shell and helps you hear by sending sound signals to your brain
What is the cochlea?
These are the three steps of how memories form in our brains.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?