Brain Anatomy
The cells that communicate with each other to transmit information in the brain.
What are neurons?
The ability to hold information in the mind while performing mental operations on it.
What is working memory?
The weight of an average adult human brain.
What is three pounds?
The percentage of our brains that we actually use and the percentage that movies like Lucy suggest we use.
What is 100% and 10%?
The Swiss psychologist known for defining four stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
What the junctures between neurons are called.
What are synapses?
The ability to recall an image of something that has been seen and changes aspects of the image.
What is visualization?
The approximate number of neurons in a human brain.
What is 100 Billion? (Accept anything between 85 and 150 Billion.)
The erroneous idea that people are either visual, auditory or kinesthetic learners.
What are learning styles?
The French physician for whom the language production area of the frontal lobes is named for.
Who is Paul Broca?
The lobes at the back of the brain where vision is processed.
The ability to focus on specific pieces of information and screen out others.
What is selective attention?
The percentage of oxygen and blood in the body used by the brain.
What is 20%?
The lame-brained notion that brains have a dominant hemisphere.
What is being left-brained or right-brained?
The German physician for whom the area of the brain responsible for understanding words is named.
Who is Carl Wernicke?
The organ in the brain resonsible for memory creation and consolidation.
What is the hippocampus?
The ability to identify the concepts of "left" and "right" and mentally rotate objects in space.
What is directionality?
The animal with the largest brain, weighing in at about 20 pounds.
What is a sperm whale?
The principle that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
What is neuroplasticity?
The Canadian psychologist who explained learning and behavior as a function of connections among neurons.
The bundle of fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
The ability to reorganize visual information in a form that is consistent, regardless of object distance, location or orientation.
What is visual form consistency?
The approximate number of miles of blood vessels in the human brain.
What is 100,000?
The always dubious and now thoroughly debunked idea that playing classical music to infants makes them smarter.
What is the Mozart Effect?
The American railroad construction foreman who survived an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head. While he survived, his personaiity changed completely.
Who was Phineas Gage?