YOUR

FANTASTIC
BRAIN

Your 3 kinds of brain: reptilian, mammalian, and the thinking brain.

Your 2 brains: the left brain and right brain hemispheres.
Your 1 brain: the power of whole-brain activity.
Your 8 intelligences: your personal unique mix of ability.
 Neocortex
The thinking brain
Corpus Callosum
Connects left and right halves
Thalamus of the brain
The switchboard for incoming
sensory information

Hypothalamus
Controls sex hormones, Cerebellum
aggression, blood pressure, Coordinates movement and
temperature, and thirst. muscle memory after, e.g.
riding a bike, swiming.

Pituitary Gland
Influences and controls
hormone action.

Reptilian Brain
Hippocampus Breathing, circulation, heartbeat,
Helps create long-term
Amygdala memory
digestion, consciousness.
Helps control
emotions.
REPTILIAN BRAIN
(The Brain Stem)

Controls many basic functions including breathing,

heart rate, and instinct. Also controls other primitive
instincts--your sense of territory.

It helps explain why anger is difficult to control because it is

often a result either of feeling threatened or of someone
trying to take away something you think is yours.
THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN Emotion
(The Limbic System) Memory
Sex
Health

Key Components:
Hypothalamus and Amygdala

Controls your hormones, thirst, hunger, sexuality,

pleasure centers, metabolism, immune function, and important
part of long-term memory.

This part of our brain that controls emotions also controls health.
THE THINKING BRAIN The part of brain that makes us
most human, that makes humans
(Neocortex) a unique species.

Handles seeing, hearing, creating, thinking, talking

--- all higher intelligences.

The Specialist parts of the neocortex:

Speech
Hearing
Vision
Touch
Human prefrontal lobes exercise judgment,
planning, and higher order thinking. Since
this area also linked strongly to limbic system
it is also where we develop compassion,
altruism, and a sense of justice.

It is the thinking brain that has given human

Cogito, Ergo Sum being the capacity of adaptation.
 Our Two Brains
Left brain

Right brain

Left brain specializes in academic aspects

of learning : language and mathematical
processes, logical thoughts, sequences,
and analysis.

Right brain specializes in creative activities utilizing

rhyme, rhythm, music, visual impressions, color, and
pictures.-- metaphorical mind looking for analogies
and patterns.
A New View of Intelligence
IQ : an individuals mental age, as determined
by intelligence testing, divided by the persons
chronological age multiplied by 100.
IQ test predominantly measures an
individuals ability with linguistic and
= 100
Logical-mathematical challenges as Sd =16
well as some visual and spatial tasks.
IQ test is reasonably good at measuring and predicting a students school
performance.
Intelligence is an ability to solve a problem or fashion a product that is
valued in one or more cultural settings (Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind:
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, 1985).

Linguistic intelligence Logical-mathematical intelligence

Visual-spatial intelligence Musical intelligence
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence Interpersonal (social) intelligence
Intrapersonal intelligence Naturalist intelligence
Eksistencial (spiritual inteligence)
 A New View of Intelligence (Howard Gardner, 1985)

Linguistic intelligence The ability to read, write, and communicate with words (authors,
journalists, poets, orators, and comedians).
Logical-mathematical The ability to reason and calculate, to think things through in a
intelligence logical, systematic manner (engineers, scientists, economists,
accountants, detectives, and members of legal profession).
Visual-spatial The ability to think in pictures, visualize a future result (architects,
intelligence artists, sculptors, sailors, photographers, and strategic planners).
Musical intelligence The ability to make or compose music, to sing well, or understand,
and appreciate music (musicians, composers, and recording
engineers).
Bodily-kinesthetic The ability to use your body skillfully to solve problems, create
intelligence products, or present ideas and emotions (athletes, artists,
dancers, actors, and all physically talented people).
Interpersonal (social) The ability to work effectively with others, to relate to other
intelligence people and display empathy and understanding, to notice their
motivations and goals (teachers, facilitators, therapists,
politicians, leaders, and salespeople).
Intrapersonal The ability for self analysis and reflection-to be able to quietly
intelligence contemplate and assess ones accomplishment and innermost
feelings, to make plan and set goals, to know oneself
(philosophers, counselors, and many peak performers)
Naturalist intelligence The ability to recognize flora and fauna, to make other consequ-
ential distinctions in the natural world, and to use this ability pro-
ductively (hunter, farmers, botanists, biologists, environmentalists).
Eksistencial