Brain Awareness Week

The Five Senses and the Brain

The Neuron

100 Billion Neurons

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Areas of the Brain

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How do babies see the world?

Sensory receptors in the skin

How do we feel touch, pain and temperature?

How do we feel touch, pain and temperature?

The somatosensory cortex

http://dbarchive.biosciencedbc.jp/en/bodyparts3d/dl.html

Somatotopic Map

Homunculus

Dr. Penfield

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How do we see?

Visual Cortex

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Do you see motion?

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What shapes do you see?

Which line is longer?

Same Length!

How do we hear?

Soundwaves

Ai - v - r - on

How do we smell?

How do we taste?

http://fourthingsabout.blogspot.com

http://scienceray.com

Flavour?

But there is more!

Proprioception

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Time to see aREAL COW BRAIN

It’s a traumatic brain injury!

    Concussions

Symptoms:• Loss of consciousness• confusion• Headache• Nausea• Vomiting• Blurred vision• Short term memory

loss

Long term effects in 24 retired NFL players:

Memory and learningThe Neurotrauma Impact Science LabUniversity of Ottawa