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Brain Anatomy (brainatomy):
Whole Brain
Comparative Anatomy
Lobes
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The Whole Brain
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Brain:
- Controls how you get
around in your world
- The adult brain is
made of
100,000,000,000 neurons
and lots more glial
cells
- Hangs out in the skull
- Weighs 3 pounds
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Compare Brain
Anatomy
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Above:
The
right
sides of two brains. Vinny's brain is much larger than
his cat's brain. However, the olfactory bulb in the cat's brain
is much larger than in Vinny's. The olfactory bulb is for smell,
and cats have a greater sense of smell than humans (or human-like
critters such as Vinny).
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| Lobes |
Our brains are made
of 4 lobes - 2 of each per side (or hemisphere).
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1
=
Frontal
Lobe (frontal and top of head)
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2=
Parietal
Lobe
(top and toward back of head)
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3
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Occipital
Lobe (back of head)
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4
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Temporal
Lobe (sides of head)
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Lateral
(side)
Brain
Outline
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Try
it!
Click
and drag the lobes (below) to the outline brain (above).
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| Frontal Lobe |
Occipital Lobe |
Parietal Lobe |
Temporal Lobe |
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Lobes do different
things (below are just some examples of functions):
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Frontal:
- Motor
- Planning
- Inhibiting
- Speech output
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Occipital:
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Parietal:
- Feeling touch
- Spatial abilities
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Temporal:
- Hearing
- Language comprehension
- Memory
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2008-2009, Bumpy Brains - Last
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