How Our Brain Works????

1. What does the word "hemisphere" refer to when talking about the brain?

The two sides of the brain.

2. What are the major differences between the left and right sides of the brain?
Differences: The left side of the brain is the seat of language and processes in a logical and sequential order. The right side is more visual and processes intuitively, holistically, and randomly.

3. What is the corpus callasum?

The Corpus Collasum is a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.

4. Explain the study performed by Paul Broca in which he discovered "Broca's Area."

Pierre Paul Broca was a French surgeon that studied the brain of a a patient with a speech impairment alter his death. He concluded that there is an specific part of the brain in charge of speech production which was called Broca’s Area.

5. Explain the study conducted by Roger Sperry in regard to "split brain."

Roger sperry was the one who started the whole idea of brain lateralization. Roger Sperry won nobel prizes after developing this idea.

6. Explain the study conducted by Karl Wernicke which led to the discovery of Wernicke's Area."

He found about the temporal lobe. In his study he studied the comprehension of a person.

7. Which lobe is most responsible for vision?

Occipital Lobe.

8. Which lobe is most responsible for hearing and language?

Temperal Lobe.

9. Which lobe is most responsible for performing math calculations?
Parental Lobe.

10. Which lobe is most responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control?
The Frontal Lobe.

Who Was Phineas Gage???

Phineas Gage was born July 9 , 1823 and died in May 21, 1860 in San Francisco American railroad construction foreman, is probably the most famous person to have survived severe damage to the brain. One of its functions was to place explosive charges in holes drilled into the rock. To do that, he had to fill the hole with gunpowder, placed a detonator, and finally covered her with sand and crushed sand with a heavy metal bar. But he forgot throw the sand before hitting the bar, so when he did it there was an explosion that make the bar went to his head, the bar had a measure of 3 cm of diameter, and 1 meter of large.

Lateralization is the idea that the two halves of the brain's cerebral cortex,helps us to understand our behavior, our personality, our creativity, and our ability to use the proper mode of thinking when performing particular tasks. The real concept of Brain Lateralization is a longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum. The sides resemble each other and each hemisphere's structure is generally mirrored by the other side. The brain lateralization research showed that many of these negative avoidance and emotional tendencies were mediated by the right, non-dominant, unconscious hemisphere. The term brain lateralization refers to the fact that the two halves of the human brain are not exactly alike. Each hemisphere has funcitonal specializations: some function whose neural mechanisms are localized primarily in one half of the brain.

Nature VS Nurture...............

Nature VS Nurture Means.......

Basically an expression that is shorthand appearance for debates about the relative significance of a person's inborn individuality, which is considered as "nature" versus individual experiences, which is "nurture" in shaping or causing personage differences in physical and behavioural character.

This Term was used by........

Francis Galton. Some sources claim that it could also be a reference to the words of Shakespeare's Prospero in orientation to Caliban.

My Opinion......

I personally think that nurture does play a huge part in forming personality, its very much like manners, someone with no manners can be perceived as rude yet no-one can be born with manners. It is something that has to be learnt.