The brains is often described as the most complex thing in the universe. And we still have a lot to learn about it. This article is about the way we may learn to process certain types of information.
For this project you should start by reading this article that discusses how brains develop different abilities as they mature. Then write a paragraph that summarized the article. Paragraphs should be at least three well constructed sentences.
Then you should find and link to an article about the brain. This could be any information about the brain or any system of control in an organism. In talking about the brain it can be from its anatomy to the way it works to the changes in development of a single individual or how it has changed in hominids over millions of years.
Finally write a paragraph summarizing the material in that article. Again, paragraphs should be at least three well constructed sentences.
Finally write a paragraph summarizing the material in that article. Again, paragraphs should be at least three well constructed sentences.
Make sure you put your ID and class section on your work. This project is due by midnight Sunday, 12/27. Remember that you need to do either this or the previous project. If you do both projects one will count for extra credit. If you did not do the previous article you must do this one.
If you have problems, email me at aphsbio at gmail.com.
If you have problems, email me at aphsbio at gmail.com.
This is an article on sciencenews.org written by Bruce Bower. The name of the article is Visual Illusion Stumps Adults but not Kids. According to the article, the brain’s capacity to consider the context of visual scenes, and not just focus on parts of scenes, develops slowly. Because of this, visual context can be experimentally manipulated to distort adults’ perception of objects’ sizes. According to Martin Doherty, "When visual context is misleading, adults literally see the world less accurately than they did as children.”
ReplyDeleteAccording to an Iran paper called Tehran Times, modern life causes brain overload. This study was done by scientists from the University of San Diego, California.The scientists believe that the information overload may be having a detrimental effect on our brains. The study has found that the wealth of media in modern life means the average person is bombarded with enough information every day to overload a laptop computer. This study has led to experts believing that the information overload could prompt our brains to evolve in a new way over time.
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This is talking about when a illusion can effect our minds when we are adult. Our minds can function the illusion in a young age. Then an adult can't stop the illusion. That things can change when the expeirence takes a long time can help us achieve in what are visual partations takes place. There are different studies that can effect us when we process our mind in visual circumstance in our eyesight and to our brain function. So studies endicat that ages are different and effects our visual to proccess the information in a picture. And people with autism can change the data.
ReplyDeleteScientists recently found out that children have a protection against visual illusions but adults don’t. A test called, the Ebbinghaus illusion, was given to an adult and a child. This test showed that adults’ results showed that this experiment could be manipulated to distort the perception of objects. But in children, mostly younger than age 7, vison was opposite from adults’ by showing little evidence of an altered size perception.
ReplyDeleteScientists think they found a way to prevent brain tumors. When looking at blood samples scientists where looking for tumor suppressors and have found a gene called TP53. They also found that people under the age of 45 with brain tumors are more likely to have the Pro/Pro variant of this gene than people older the age of 45 or healthy people.
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This article is about how the brain of adults and children interpret visual illusions. The person who set up this experiment is Martin Doherty from the University of Stirling in Scotland. Martin and his team wanted to see if there is a difference between kids and adults and how they view pictures. The team took kids ranging in age from 4- 10 years and adults ranging from 18 – 25 years old and asked them to look at a series of images containing colored circles. The adults were easily fooled by misleading images or illusions in the pictures, but the kids were able to correctly identify the larger circle in the picture. They concluded that the parts of a child’s brain that processes the context of visual scenes develops slowly.
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that I picked, Serious Effects of Mild Concussions by Elizabeth Quinn is about the effects of mild concussions and a computer program that measures the brain’s recovery after an injury . A concussion is a traumatic head injury that occurs from a mild or sever blow to the head. Concussions happen when the brain gets shaken up inside the skull causing the brain cells to all fire at the same time kind of like a seizure. Concussions can have long term effects on people especially if they start playing again before their brain has healed. The University of Pittsburg medical center made this computer program called Immediate Post – Concussion Assessment Cognitive Testing system or ImPACT. ImPACT measures athletes response time, memory and think time for tasks. Coaches can test you at the beginning of the season to get a baseline and then, if you get hurt, they can test you again. They can keep you on the bench until your ImPACT test matches your initial test proving your brain has healed. This system is being used in the NFL, NHL, and high schools sports programs.
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This article is about how children size things up differently than adults do. In a study it showed that visual context can be manipulated to distort size perception. Although children age 7 and younger showed little evidence of altered size perception on a experiment called the Ebbinghaus illusion. A group of kids, 151 24 volunteers were 18-25 were college students. These people viewed a series of circles that were orange. One of the circles was 2 to 18 percent bigger than the other. They were then asked which one appeared to be bigger. Four year olds correctly identified the larger circle 79 percent of control images. This rose with age going up to 95 percent in adults.
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This article is about Alzheimer’s disease. It is a progressive brain disease. It affects thinking, behavior, and memory. If it develops fast then it is very likely that it will continue to progress rapidly but if it develops slowly then chances are that it will stay at that slow steady rate. The older you get the better your chances are of getting this disease. Also another factor is your family history. If a relative in your family had it your chances of getting it increase as well. There are two types of this disease. Early onset and late on set. In early onset symptoms first appear before the age of 60. This is very rare only accounting for 5-10% of cases. Late onset is most common. It develops in people ages 60 and older and is thought to be less likely to occur in families.
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The article provided by, Bruce Power is about how younger child about up to the ages of 7 to 10 have a better visual perception of the world as it is compared to their older counterparts. Children younger than 7 years of age showed little evidence of altered size perception. Through many studies they show that adults literally see the world less clear and accurate than they did as children.
ReplyDeleteThe article I found by Mellissa C Conrad was about the different types of brain cancers and the symptoms that lead to them. The cause of cancer in the brain is due to abnormal growths of brain cells. Though most rain cancer is called brain tumors not all brain tumors are cancerous. Malignant tumors are tumors that are cancerous and that spread fast and aggressively. The most common primary brain tumors are gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, vestibular schwannomas, primary CNS lymphomas, and primitive neuroectodermal tumors. Ther eare four different grades of brain cancer (tumors), they are: Grade 1: The tissue is benign. The cells look nearly like normal brain cells, and cell growth is slow, Grade 2: The tissue is malignant. The cells look less like normal cells than do the cells in a grade I tumor, Grade 3: The malignant tissue has cells that look very different from normal cells. The abnormal cells are actively growing. These cells are termed anaplastic. And Grade 4: The malignant tissue has cells that look most abnormal and tend to grow very fast.
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I read the article, VISUAL ILLUSION STUMPS ADULTS BUT NOT KIDS. It is about how peoples eyes see things differently at different ages. There was a study about which circle looked bigger that 79% of 4-year olds scored correct, and 95% of adults scored correctly. In other studies, kids did better.
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This link is a website with a 3D Brain Anatomy. You can click on an area (cerebellum, frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, brain stem, corpus collosum, and the limbic system and thalamus) and it shows you what that part looks like, where it is, and what it does. There is information about what area controls movement, sight, smell, touch, taste, memory, speech, and emotions.
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