Neuroscience rocks! Unit 3A/3B

 Brain mnemonics chart:
 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3NmVkZmFmODAtODA5Yi00YWNlLTk4ODMtNDBlZGUxYWZiNGM3/edit?usp=sharing

All kinds of fun stuff:
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Video: Brain pacemaker! A man with Parkinson's gets DBS (deep brain stimulation) to relieve his symptoms

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Unit 7B Resources

There will be a short test (a 'quest') on Unit 7B tomorrow, Thursday 9/26 (early release day!). Your flashcards will be collected!

Here are the slides I used in class:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3ckF3SUpPYnhLMXM/edit?usp=sharing
(source info: the majority of the slides from this ppt are from appsychology.com)

Please complete online quizzes 1 and 2 for unit 7B by midnight tonight.
www.worthpublishers.com/myersap1e
Be sure that you are signing in with your student account and having scores sent to your instructor, not your scorecard. 

Here are some fun related links for this unit:

• Online game: The Tower of Hanoi critical thinking game... can you solve it???!!!  http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/logic/towers/
• Article: 10 Steps to Raising a Multilingual Child  http://www.multilingualchildren.org/getting_started/tensteps.html
• Article about Brazil's Piraha tribe, the tribe without numbers http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/brazil-s-piraha-tribe-living-without-numbers-or-time-a-414291.html 
• Animal psych article: "The dog that pretended to feed a frog" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/09/07/animal-imagination-the-dog-that-pretended-to-feed-a-frog-and-other-tales/?WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
•  And here's a TED Talk by linguist Steve Pinker about what our language habits reveal.

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