There are applications of geometry all around us in real life from the designing of cars‚ planes‚ homes‚ and buildings to things like computer graphics. Geometry is even used in the medical field. For instance‚ when a person has a CAT scan test for a brain tumor‚ geometry is used to show doctors the shape of the tumor. Though geometry is usually not taught in elementary school‚ even students in kindergarten are being prepared to learn about geometry when they begin learning the shapes of objects‚ including
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For many years‚ there has been a myth of brain lateralization. It is believed that there are preferences over the two types of thinking based on a person’s brain dominance. Theories says that there is a left brain and a right-brain that controls the person’s thoughts. Our understanding of the brain and mind interaction has changed through studied that offers us a clearer picture of the brain and their bizarre forms of intellect. A substantial amount of research has been done in hopes of understanding
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Doctor Francis Jenson who wrote the book “The Teenage Brain‚” says “the last place to be connected and fully myelinated‚ is the front of your brain…. and what’s in the front? Your prefrontal cortex and your frontal cortex. These are areas where we have insight‚ and empathy‚ these executive functions such as impulse control‚ and risk-taking behavior."
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HOW THE BRAIN WORKS Everything we do‚ every thought we have is produced by the human brain. Despite the brains intelligence it can still be fooled by a simple magic trick. Also according to the video I watched its shows how a magnetic wind can control a human body and their speech when attached to the head. Brains are like finger prints and they are totally different as everybody. Exactly how the brain operates remains one of the biggest mysteries. Tyson‚ who is the movie interpreter‚ went to Las
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House and his split brain patient in various ways‚ such as their views about the right and left hemispheres of the brain‚ their unspoken self-governed thoughts or actions of their right hemispheres‚ and their realization of what their right hemisphere was trying to tell them. Both House and his split brain patient‚ have different views about the right hemisphere of the brain. When the split brain patients file was being reviewed by House and his team‚ House stated that the left brain had ‘language‚
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project I was attempting to test brain dominance in gender. I had people take the same brain dominance test to see if the individual thought with more with the left side of the brain or the right. In my experiment I had 59 people take the same questionnaire to see which hemisphere of the brain was more dominant as a whole. I became intrigue on the topic of brain dominance after doing some research on the brain. The brain is a very complex organ one hemisphere of the brain corresponds with the opposite
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The Brain I. Supporting structures Anatomy of the Brain 3 Major Areas: Cerebrum-consists of two hemispheres (thalamus and hypothalamus) that are incompletely separated by the great longitudinal fissure 4 Lobes: Frontal-major functions are concentration‚ abstract thought‚ information storage or memory‚ and motor function. It also contains Broca’s area‚ critical for motor control of speech Parietal-analyzes sensory information and relays the interpretation of the info to the thalamus. It
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Physical changes have a bigger impact on the brain than chemical changes. Some injuries to change the brain include concussions‚ tumors‚ assault‚ lobotomies‚ and accidents. A concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the aftereffects such as confusion‚ dizziness‚ and lightheadedness. Concussions can usually be caused by sports or any other accidents to the head. A specific part of a brain could be either damaged or bruised. A violent
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methods of the brain. It ranges from electrical and chemical stimulation‚ recordings of the electrical activity from the brain‚ scanning and imaging techniques‚ and so on. The effects of electrical and chemical stimulation take place within different places in the brain that selectively affect specific psychological processes as well as psychologically active medications; anesthetics and recreational drugs). These selectively affect different mental processes because they act on the brain in different
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If you think of the brain as a central computer that controls all the functions of your body‚ then the nervous system is like a network that relays messages back and forth from it to different parts of the body. It does this via the spinal cord‚ which runs from the brain down through the back and contains threadlike nerves that branch out to every organ and body part. When a message comes into the brain from anywhere in the body‚ the brain tells the body how to react. For example‚ if you accidentally
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