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3. Your
amazing brain
Commentary: Gordon DrydenMind Map: Philip Chambers
Illustration from World Book Encyclopedia
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9. The decade of the brain
We’ve learned more about the brain in the past 10 years than in all the rest of recorded history: and it’s nearly all good!
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Your brain is likea sleeping giant
Tony Buzan
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The greatest unexploredterritory in the world is thethe space between our ears
Bill O’Brien
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We have learned moreabout the brain in the
last 10 years than in therest of recorded history.
And not one of us is using even a small fraction
of its potential.
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Four brains in one
1. Reptilian brain or brain-stem
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Four brains in one
2. The mid- or mammalian brain
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Four brains in one
The brain we share with other mammals.
2. The mid- or mammalian brain
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Four brains in one
The brain we share with other mammals.
Our emotional brain.
Deals with bonding.
Very closely linked with memory.
2. The mid- or mammalian brain
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Our four brains in one
Our thinking, communicating brain3. The two-sided cerebral cortex
Linked by the corpus callosum like a greattelephone exchange
Left side deals with
WordsLogicSequenceNumbersMath
Right side deals with
RhymeRhythmMusicPicturesImagination
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Using both sides is best
You learn much faster when you use both sides of the brain together.
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Using both sides is best
You learn much faster when you use both sides of the brain together.
That’s why you can remember the words of a song when you hear the tune: the left hemisphere recalls the words and the right
hemisphere links those to the tune.
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Our four brains in one
Cerebellum means‘little brain’
4. The cerebellum or little brain
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Our four brains in one
Deals with muscle memory.
Cerebellum means‘little brain’
4. The cerebellum or little brain
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Our four brains in one
Deals with muscle memory. Grows cells after birth.
Cerebellum means‘little brain’
4. The cerebellum or little brain
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Our four brains in one
Deals with muscle memory. Grows cells after birth. The balancing brain.
Cerebellum means‘little brain’
4. The cerebellum or little brain
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Our four brains in one
Deals with muscle memory. Grows cells after birth. The balancing brain. Part of the vestibular system
linked with the inner ear.
Cerebellum means‘little brain’
4. The cerebellum or little brain
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Our four brains in one
Deals with muscle memory. Grows cells after birth. The balancing brain. Part of the vestibular system
linked with the inner ear.
Vital for storing memories linked with action, such as
golf and tennis swings.
Cerebellum means‘little brain’
4. The cerebellum or little brain
Midbrain Activation A Program to help your child become a Genius
Here are two pictures of the brain :On the left hand you see the brain from a side
On the right you see the brain if you were to look at it from above
Longitudinal Fissure
Transverse Fissure
Sylvian/Lateral Fissure
Central Sulcus
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Specific Sulci/Fissures:
The two sides of the brainThe picture on the right shows the two halves
of the brain.They look exactly alike but
They are VERY different in action:
As you can see there a lot of differences
but we shall only look at the first few:
Here is a short summary of the differences between the two brains
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Midbrain Activation A Program to help your child become a Genius
How do we know that they are different ?
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We know it due to the work of one man who spent 40 years studying more than 10,000 children and wrote over 250 books and created 450 centres in Japan to carry out his work
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His belief is that if one child can do something, all have the potential to do it.
Therefore, his message is a universal one.
He does not believe that Japanese children are somehow different from children the world around.
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Dr. Shichida uses the term “right brain education” to describe his curriculum methods and to distinguish it as being different and distinct from the traditional education in Japan which utilizes the more linear left brain approach to learning
High-Speed, High-Capacity MemoryWriting about the Shichida method in one of his books, he says the right brain has a "high-speed, high-capacity memory" mechanism.
The left brain turns data from the external world into language. This requires "sequential processing," wherein data is processed one bit at a time.
This is a time-consuming activity.
High-Speed, High-Capacity Memory
The right brain processes information very quickly as images.
The left brain and right brain also differ in memory capacity and the period of time information can be stored.
According to Shichida, the left brain is continuously dumping old information to make room for new.
The right brain memory is never deleted. He says therefore, "photographic memory" is a right brain function. We can look at the left brain like computer RAM and the right brain as an unlimited capacity hard drive that can't be erased.
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