3. Your amazing brain

1. 3. Your amazing brain Commentary: Gordon Dryden Mind Map: Philip Chambers Illustration from World Book Encyclopedia

2. 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!

3. Your brain is like a sleeping giant Tony Buzan

4. The greatest unexplored territory in the world is the the space between our ears Bill O’Brien

5. We have learned more about the brain in the last 10 years than in the rest of recorded history. And not one of us is using even a small fraction of its potential.

6. Four brains in one 1. Reptilian brain or brain-stem

7. Four brains in one 2. The mid- or mammalian brain

8. Four brains in one 2. The mid- or mammalian brain • The brain we share with other mammals.

9. Four brains in one 2. The mid- or mammalian brain • The brain we share with other mammals. • Our emotional brain. • Deals with bonding. • Very closely linked with memory.

10. Our four brains in one 3. The two-sided cerebral cortex Our thinking, communicating brain Left side deals with Words Logic Sequence Numbers Math Right side deals with Rhyme Rhythm Music Pictures Imagination Linked by the corpus callosum like a great telephone exchange

11. Using both sides is best • You learn much faster when you use both sides of the brain together.

12. 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.

13. Cerebellum means ‘little brain’ Our four brains in one 4. The cerebellum or little brain

14. Cerebellum means ‘little brain’ Our four brains in one 4. The cerebellum or little brain • Deals with muscle memory.

15. Cerebellum means ‘little brain’ Our four brains in one 4. The cerebellum or little brain • Deals with muscle memory. • Grows cells after birth.

16. Cerebellum means ‘little brain’ Our four brains in one 4. The cerebellum or little brain • Deals with muscle memory. • Grows cells after birth. • The balancing brain.

17. Cerebellum means ‘little brain’ Our four brains in one 4. The cerebellum or little brain • Deals with muscle memory. • Grows cells after birth. • The balancing brain. • Part of the vestibular system linked with the inner ear.

18. Cerebellum means ‘little brain’ Our four brains in one 4. The cerebellum or little brain • 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.

19. 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

20. Specific Sulci/Fissures: Central Sulcus Longitudinal Fissure Sylvian/Lateral Fissure Transverse Fissure http://www.bioon.com/book/biology/whole/image/1/1-8.tif.jpg http://www.dalbsoutss.eq.edu.au/Sheepbrains_Me/human_brain.gif

21. The two sides of the brain The picture on the right shows the two halves of the brain. They look exactly alike but They are VERY different in action:

23. As you can see there a lot of differencesbut we shall only look at the first few :

25. Here is a short summary of the differences between the two brains :

26. Midbrain Activation A Program to help your child become a Genius

27. How do we know that they are different ? :

28. 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 :

29. ? 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. .

30. ? 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

31. High-Speed, High-Capacity Memory Writing 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.

32. 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.

33. HERE IS PROOF: