1. Neuroscience Continued
November 17, 2009
Neuroscience Continued

2. Espanol http://www.spanishspanish.com/days.html
¿Qué día es hoy? What day is today?
Hoy es lunes. Today is Monday.
Mañana es martes. Tomorrow is Tuesday.

3. Break

4. Neuroscience Review Neuron Learn lobes of the brain
Frontal and Parietal Lobes
Limits of Perception and Perfection

5. Neuroscience
Do you know where words are stored in your brain…? Your temporal lobe.
As you know your brain has two sides (two hemispheres) connected by the corpus callosum. So you have one temporal lobe on each side of the brain.
If you are right-handed, your language is stored mostly in your left temporal lobe. If you are left-handed, you are not so lateralized and your language is stored a bit on both sides of your brain in the temporal lobes.
Words in the brain are not stored randomly. They seemed to be quite organized. Research has shown that words that are often heard together (such as salt and pepper) or words that share some meaning (such as nurse and doctor) are connected or associated in the brain. Once you hear one, the other is activated.
Here is a brain exercise whose aim is to stimulate the connections or associations between words in your temporal lobe.
In the left column you have a pair of words. Your goal is to find a third word that is connected or associated with both of these two words.
The first pair is PIANO and LOCK. The answer is KEY. The word key is connected with both the word piano and the word lock: there are KEYS on a piano and you use a KEY to lock doors….
Key is what is called a homograph: a word that has more than one meaning but is always spelled the same.
Ready to stimulate connections in your temporal lobe(s)? Enjoy! (Solutions are below. Please don’t check them until you have trid to solve all the pairs!)

6. Temporal Lobe Exercise
1. LOCK – PIANO
2. SHIP – CARD
3. TREE – CAR
4. SCHOOL – EYE
5. PILLOW – COURT
6. RIVER – MONEY
7. BED – PAPER
8. ARMY – WATER
9. TENNIS – NOISE
10. EGYPTIAN – MOTHER
11. SMOKER – PLUMBER

7. Neuroscience
Brain Charades