BUSTED! You should be suspicious of claims that a certain brain area is the epicenter of any given brain function. And you should try to avoid making these claims as well. The old adage, “one [...]
What is the process through which the nervous system evaluates risk outside of your conscious awareness? a. Interoception b. Neuroception c. Sympathetic nervous system d. Parasympathetic nervous [...]
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month and it’s a good time to understand more about the most common brain injury: concussion. Also known as a mild traumatic brain injury, a concussion is caused [...]
The Yerkes-Dodson Law and the resulting Inverted U Curve of Arousal vs. Performance was created by psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson more than one hundred years ago (1908). But what is [...]
We know from watching children that learning to read is difficult work requiring diligence and persistence. It is consistent and repeated effort like this that causes changes in the brain when we [...]
What is the sense that provides information about internal sensations? a) The Vestibular Sense b) Sense of Proprioception c) Interoception! d) Neuroception Interoception is the sensory system [...]
Are you right-brained or left-brained? Actually we are all “whole brained”, yet we draw on unique attributes within each hemisphere depending on our personality and proclivities. In fact, there [...]
In a study published last week, researchers looked at the visual tracking of people with and without ASD as they followed a target on a computer screen. Key differences were found between the [...]
