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85What are the Parts of the Brain and their Functions?
An overview of the different parts of the brain and their functions, plus a basic discussion of the cerebral cortex.
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73Speed Reading By Mental Photography
A young child uses natural photographic memory, straight into the vast memory banks of the brain's cerebral cortex. You can see them gaze in awe and amazement as they absorb pictures, vioces, words, people,...
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70Important Things to Know About Memory
Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience. It is also the process of bringing into the conscious mind things that has been learned and retained. Experiment show that the higher...
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54A Network in Control
You're down to the last mouthful of breakfast when the schoolbus arrives. As it blares its horn, you glance at your watch which says it's 6:40. Then, you grab your bag and say goodbye, as you make...
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69Dreaming: Exploring the Unconscious World
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.Sigmund Freud The exploration of the unconscious mind owes its dues to the wonderful mental process known as dreaming. The...
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64Within the human brain . The three main actors
Hemispheres of the brain constitute 85 percent of the weight of the brain. The billions of neurons in the two hemispheres are connected by a thick bundle of nerves called the corpus callosum. Scientists...
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58Don't Think Twice, That's Alright
There's an old saying, "If you don't use it, you lose it". If that's true, the average American brain must be in a state of atrophy. Most of us are seldom called upon to use our cerebral cortex anymore....
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55Touch - How Do We Feel?
The sense of touch is a body's reaction to a combination of touch, temperature, pressure and pain. Nerve endings, known as receptors or corpuscles in and under the skin, gage what is happening to the body's...
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61How Does Our Memory Work?
"Use your head!" You probably hear people say that all the time, and with good reason. That head of yours houses the most useful contraption of all time: your brain! Your brain is a finely tuned machine...
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