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How Your Brain Works… Sort Of

Posted by William On September - 4 - 2009

The human brain. Amazing. It processes information and is felt through the senses of our touch, our smell, our taste, our vision and our hearing. It allows us to reason and lets us dream. It handles our processes of emotions, such as anger, sadness and joy. It controls our internal bodily functions, such as our heart, our breathing, and our blood pressure.
 
How the brain worksHow the brain works The brain has several parts to it. One of the parts in our complex brain is the cerebral cortex, and when it come to artificial intelligence this is the section we really care about. Your cortex is divided into four lobes or sections.
 
These sections are the frontal lobe, the occipital lobe, the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe. This part of the brain helps us to pay attention and allows us to remember things. It is also responsible for our thoughts, our language processes, our conscious, awareness and most importantly our intelligence. It is a grey color and is made up of neurons.

One of the things that the cerebral cortex allows to function in the human brain is our senses. The cerebral cortex receives this message through our thalamus, which is then transmitted to what is known as our primary sensory area. It is the visual cortex, the auditory cortex, and the somatosensory cortex that allows us to see, hear and experience touch.

This all comes together with the use of the opposite sides of the brain. This means that when you are touched on the right side of your body, the left side of your brain is the side that is responsible for the transmission of this.

The part of your brain that controls your motor skills is located in the cerebral cortex as well. Within the cerebral cortex you have your primary motor cortex and your supplementary motor cortex. The primary motor cortex is responsible for carrying out your voluntary movements.

"The cortex... It is also responsible for our thoughts, our language processes, our conscious, awareness and most importantly our intelligence."

The supplementary motor cortex is responsible for choosing which voluntary movement that we will use. Like the portion of your cerebral cortex that controls your senses, the part that controls your motor skills is also controlled by the opposite side of your brain. If you are moving something with your left hand the right side of your brain is working to process your movements.

Another one of these components is the neurons, which are nerve cells. There are billions of these in your brain. They all work to transmit a signal to your brain, which is unique because they are electrochemical signals. The neurons are made up of a cell body, which is the main portion of the cell. If the cell body expires the neuron will not survive.

The second part of a neuron is an axon, which carries the signal to its destination. Lastly, there are the dendrites, which make it possible for the neuron to make their connections to the other cells.

The brain is present in every living creature in this world, but there is none as remarkably unique as the brain of a human.

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