| A | B |
|---|
| right brain | Colors, shapes, music, imagination, patterns, hunches, think in pictures, random, creative, wants to be correct |
| neurologist | A doctor who specializes in the brain. |
| corpus callosum | Binds the brain together, allows info to move from one hemisphere to another |
| cerebrum | Largest part of the brain, allows us to think, learn, feel, and move |
| thalamus | Takes in sensory information and processes it (your five senses) |
| hippocampus | Takes short term memory and turns it into long term memory |
| amygdala | The 911 of the brain. It wakes up the body and “fights” or takes “flight” |
| cerebellum | Provides balance, coordination,a nd movement for the body |
| brainstem | Connects the brain to the spinal cord. Regulates heartbeat, breathing, and digestion. |
| spinal cord | Thick bundle of nerve fibers that is inside the spine. |
| cranium | The skull that protects the brain. |
| neuron | A nerve cell. It communicates through an electrochemical process called a synapsis |
| axon | The part of the nerve cell that takes info away from the cell body and to the next neuron. |
| dendrite | The part of the neuron that brings information the the cell body. |
| myelin sheath | The covering of the axon that protects it and helps speed up the messages to and from the brain. |
| synapses | An electrochemical connection between neurons that allows information to move from one neuron to another |
| one hundred billion | ____________neuron in our brain |
| six hundred | The neurons are _________ miles in length end to end if you could line them up. |
| about three pounds | _______ pounds is the weight of our brains |
| short term memory | Memories that last for only a short time. What you remember only as long as you are paying attention |
| long term memory | Things that we remember that are important to us and we place in “permanent storage”. These memories can last a lifetime or just a few years. |
| emotions | help build long term memories. |
| left brain | Lining things up, speech, language, math, order, logical, has to “make sense”, answers questions in words, good at memorizing, needs rules, and follows rules |
