Ideal for anyone interested in learning about the nervous system, this helpful "road map" of the brain explains various brain structures and pinpoints their locations and particular functions. Each chapter offers background information about a specific neuroscience topic, plus engaging experiments, games, and demonstrations that will guide readers to an understanding of these new ideas. The activities suggested meet National Science Education Standards.

Light, sound, taste, and smell shape our lives dramatically, but how does this happen? How can a far-away noise elicit a joyful memory or a cry? How can the smell of cookies take you back to early childhood? These powerful stimuli exist in our environment, yet remain neutral until our brain decodes the necessary information into meaningful senses. In other words, light is transformed into vision, and sound into hearing, by the brain and the brain only. Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World reveals the phenomena underlying our senses, with a brief discussion of what can go wrong (for...

Examine both the major aspects of the physiology and anatomy of the brain and central nervous system, as well as some of the processes for which the brain is responsible: sleep, addiction, laughter, and dreaming. Written with a combination of curriculum-based information about the brain and how it works and high-interest topics experienced in everyday life,

This intriguing book explores love in all its forms and from manyy perspectives. The biological underpinnings of feelings are explored, including the interaction of brain, nervous system, hormones, and body chemistry. Love is considered as an evolutionary phenomenon with origins in animal behavior. According to Shakespeare, "The course of true love never did run smooth," and the Brain and Love indeed looks at love as a give-and-take process involving costs and benefits. The author describes attempts to classify, categorize, and measures the various components of love (as distinguished from...

Examine both the major aspects of the physiology and anatomy of the brain and central nervous system, as well as some of the processes for which the brain is responsible: sleep, addiction, laughter, and dreaming. Written with a combination of curriculum-based information about the brain and how it works and high-interest topics experienced in everyday life,

Explore how we learn to speak and use language, including disorders and second languages.

Examine both the major aspects of the physiology and anatomy of the brain and central nervous system, as well as some of the processes for which the brain is responsible: sleep, addiction, laughter, and dreaming. Written with a combination of curriculum-based information about the brain and how it works and high-interest topics experienced in everyday life,

Examine both the major aspects of the physiology and anatomy of the brain and central nervous system, as well as some of the processes for which the brain is responsible: sleep, addiction, laughter, and dreaming. Written with a combination of curriculum-based information about the brain and how it works and high-interest topics experienced in everyday life,

Riding a bicycle, learning a new language, catching a ball, reading a book: these activities and everything else we see, hear, feel, and do are made possible by the soft, whitish-pink substance inside our heads called the brain.

And yet, we take for granted many of the amazing things our brain does for us. And so, Brain Lab for Kids offers 52 family-friendly activities, experiments, and models to help us understand how the brain accomplishes all that it does.

Each lab in this book is divided into several sections. After the title of each lab, the approximate...