Art and your brain revised
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The document discusses various facts about the brain: - The brain is soft like butter or jelly in consistency. - The brain uses calories when thinking, so studying can help burn calories. - The brain has two hemispheres - the left hemisphere prefers sequential thinking while the right prefers simultaneous thinking. - The hemispheres work together but control opposite sides of the body. Thinking uses different areas of the brain for logical vs emotional processing.
Art and your brain revised
- 3. Did you know??? • The brain is the consistency of soft butter or Jello! • Your brain is a muscle and you can actually burn calories when you think?* *Just THINK, you can trim up when studying for a test. How cool is that!
- 4. Did you ever really stop to wonder what’s going on in your brain?
- 5. YOUR BRAIN What can we observe?
- 6. YOUR BRAIN LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE has two halves
- 7. Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Brain Functions
- 8. Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Brain Functions Likes to see things In order, one thing At a time Likes to see everything all at once
- 9. Look at these letters: REDOR What’s going on in your brain right now? Does the word make sense?
- 10. Maybe it’s because the words are out of
- 11. ORDER REDOR
- 12. Look at this face
- 13. Now try to REMEMBER the face.
- 14. Now try to REMEMBER the face. Are you imagining just the nose? Or ONE of the eyes? Only the mouth?
- 15. Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once?? Which side of the brain do you think you are using?
- 16. Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once?? Which side of the brain do you think you are using?
- 17. Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Brain Functions Ideas, thoughts, reflections. Things that actually ARE. What we see.
- 18. What do you actually see?
- 19. What do you actually see? What do you know?
- 20. Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional Brain Functions Based on facts Based on feelings
- 21. Look at this picture and notice what your first thoughts were
- 22. Look at this picture and notice what your first thoughts were
- 23. Did the face look sort of ? Which side of your brain do you think was REACTING?
- 24. Brain Functions Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional Hears text Feels context
- 25. When we say something, our left brain hears the sounds but our right brain puts the sounds in context or, puts the words together with the picture. So the same words can have different meaning depending on the picture. For example…
- 28. The right hemisphere is the picture; The left hemisphere is the thousand words.
- 29. YOUR BRAIN IS CONTRALATERAL LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE
- 30. YOUR BRAIN IS CONTRALATERAL LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE Both sides work together. Did you know…
- 31. The left side controls the right
- 32. and the right side controls the left
- 33. Raise your right hand.
- 34. Raise your right hand. Which side of your brain do you think you were using?
- 35. Tap your left foot.
- 36. Tap your left foot. Right or left brain ??
- 37. Who do we probably consider to be the person with the smartest left brain in history?
- 38. Albert Einstein
- 39. Have you ever heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc ?2
- 40. Have you ever heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc ? Well, it all started with Einstein imagining what he would see if…. 2
- 41. he were riding on a beam of light!
- 42. Why talk about brains in art??
- 43. Art is good for your brain
- 44. Art will help you to use your whole brain and make you smarter
- 45. Think of art as creative
- 48. where your brain might take you!
- 49. Some elements in some of the images were used from Clker.com