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and your. BRAIN. Did you know???. The brain is the consistency of soft butter or Jello! Your brain is a muscle and you can actually burn calories when you think?*. *Just THINK, you can trim up when studying for a test. How cool is that!.
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and your BRAIN
Did you know??? • The brain is the consistency of soft butter or Jello! • Your brain is a muscle and you can actually burn calories when you think?* *Just THINK, you can trim up when studying for a test. How cool is that!
Did you ever really stop to wonder what’s going on in your brain?
YOUR BRAIN What can we observe?
YOUR BRAIN has two halves LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE
Brain Functions Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous
Brain Functions Likes to see things In order, one thing At a time Likes to see everything all at once Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous
Look at these letters: REDOR What’s going on in your brain right now? Does the word make sense?
ORDER REDOR
Now try to REMEMBER the face. Are you imagining just the nose? Or ONE of the eyes? Only the mouth?
Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once?? Which side of the brain do you think you are using?
Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once?? Which side of the brain do you think you are using? Right!
Brain Functions Ideas, thoughts, reflections. Things that actually ARE. What we see. Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete
What do you actually see? What do you know?
Brain Functions Based on facts Based on feelings Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional
Look at this picture and noticewhat your first thoughts were
Look at this picture and noticewhat your first thoughts were
Did the face look sort of ? Which side of your brain do you think was REACTING? CRAZY
Brain Functions Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional Hears text Feels context
When we say something, our left brain hears the sounds but our right brain puts the sounds in context or, puts the words together with the picture. So the same words can have different meaning depending on the picture. For example…
The right hemisphere is the picture; The left hemisphere is the thousand words. Photo credit: vaxine
YOUR BRAIN IS CONTRALATERAL LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE
YOUR BRAIN IS CONTRALATERAL Both sides work together. Did you know… LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE
The left side controls the right
and the right side controls the left
Raise your right hand. Which side of your brain do you think you were using?
Tap your left foot. Right or left brain ??
Who do we probably consider to be the person with the smartest left brain in history?
Have you ever heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc ? Well, it all started with Einstein imagining what he would see if…. 2
he were riding on a beam of light!
Art will help you to use your whole brain and make you smarter
Some elements in some of the images were used from Clker.com