Brain Basics
This side of the brain is typically associated with language in right-handed people.
What is the Left Hemisphere
According to Prat, this hemisphere tends to focus on details and rules.
What is the left hemisphere?
Chantel Prat argues that this makes every brain as individual as a fingerprint.
What is neural diversity (or brain wiring)?
Chantel Prat's research focuses heavily on how individuals learn this.
What is language?
Chantel Prat uses this kind of brain imaging in her research.
What is EEG (or electroencephalography)?
This term describes the brain's ability to change and adapt over time.
What is Neuroplasticity?
What is the right hemisphere?
This style of thinking, where a person sees things in shades of gray, is more associated with this hemisphere.
What is the right hemisphere?
What is Broca's area?
This common metaphor about the brain, likening it to a computer, is critiqued in the book.
What is the information processing metaphor?
The name of the large bundle of fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the Corpus Collosum?
Prat cautions against oversimplifying this idea, often misused in pop psychology.
What is the left-brain/right-brain myth?
According to Prat, your brain's default mode network is most active during this activity.
What is daydreaming (or mind-wandering)?
This lobe is central to understanding spoken and written language.
What is the temporal lobe?
According to Prat, people who enjoy solving puzzles may have higher activity in this network.
What is the cognitive control network?
Chantel Prat says this brain wave state is most associated with relaxed wakefulness and creativity.
What is the Alpha State?
A person whose brain excels at language and logic might have stronger activity here.
What is the left hemisphere?
Prat uses this test, involving a spinning silhouette, to explore perceptual differences.
What is the spinning dancer illusion?
Prat notes that learning a second language can enhance this brain function.
What is cognitive flexibility (or executive function)?
The book explains that attention works less like a spotlight and more like this.
What is a filter?
The lobe of the brain is heavily involved in planning, decision-making, and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe?
This process of filtering and interpreting the world differently by each hemisphere is called this.
What is lateralization?
People who perform better on this kind of task tend to have stronger executive control.
What is the Stroop test (or inhibition task)?
People differ in how easily they learn to read, based on this sensory system.
What is the auditory processing system?
Prat emphasizes this trait as key to understanding your own unique brain.
What is self-awareness (or introspection)?