HOW THE BRAIN WORKS

By : Chang Wai Loong

Prefrontal cortex
(personal expression and
planning of complex cognitive
behavior)
Premotor and motor area
(control muscle movement)

Hearing ability
Auditory perception
Memory acquisition and and
learning
Emotion response

Information processing
Sense of stimulation
Spatial orientation and body position.
Ability of speaking
Visual attention and face recognition

Primary visual cortex

(receive visual input from
retina)
Peristriate region
(visuospatial processing)

Coordinate the signal sent

between brain and body and
control life supporting function of
nervous system

Cerebellum
(control motor movement
coordination, balance and
equilibrium, muscle tone)

Change
structure and
function of
neurons
connection

Internal and
environment
stimuli

Intelligence
are
PLASTIC

Via
neuroplasticity

Interneuron
connection is
constructed
throughout the
life-long learning
experience

During high
stress, brain
will turn to
survival mode.

WHY ?

A structure as
part of limbic
system sensitive
to emotion

Amygdala
blocked all
new
information

As switching station,
determine the part of
brain to receive input
and response output

During high
metabolism
provoked
by anxiety

2nd
method
Require activation or
prior knowledge with
similar pattern link to
new input

Via encoding
process

Multisensory practice (storage

in diferent cortex regions)
increase access points to the
extended memory map.
1st
method

Short-term
memory is formed

Increase working
memory efficiency
via interventions of
neuroimaging
response

How to construct,
store and sustain
memory ?

Short-term memory
need to be multiple
activated.

Increase of memories
retention via deriving own
connection between new and
stored memories

To increase
neuroplasticity
durability via
growth and
interconnection of
more dendrites

The study will become

an obligation to prepare
teachers of next
generation

Understand and apply the

best teaching strategies

The Future

Ensure every teacher has the

foundation of neuroscience
knowledge

The product of
research will be
apply by teachers
for the betterment
of all future student

How the brain work and how the student

respond to it
Sensory
information
enter

1. Known as thinking brain

Prefontal
cortex
Automatic
brain

2. Can consciously process and reflect

on the information

1. Known as reactive brain.

2. React to information instinctively

*Prefontal cortex is only 17 percent of our brain, other is reactive part.

Three major brain element

that help filter information

Reticular
activating
system
(RAS)

Limbic
system

Transmitter
Dopamine

eyes

Process of Receiving Sensory

Information

ears

Thinking
brain

Focus

mouth
RAS

Reactive
brain

Pass
through

Overload

Spinal
cord

skin

muscle
nose
Internal
organ

The ways of making your brain

optimally
Keeping physical health
- Get enough rest
- Take a short break to check personal emotion
Develop awareness of and control over emotion
- Get notice of your own emotion
- Therefore can control own emotion with thinking brain

Process of Sensory Filter and Storage

The core of emotion
Limbic System

Amygdala
Sensory Cortex
Area
In Brain Lobes

Eventually
stored
Hippocampus

Sensory intake
centre of brain

The Limbic System

Amygdala

Hippocampus

Dopamine

Linkage of new
sensory input with
long-term memory to
produce new
relational knowledge
Convert short-term to
long-term memories
via executive function
Functioning well
during focused and
good emotion
controlled.

Produced during
positive emotion
Increase sence of
pleasure
Enhance alertness,
memory and
executive function.
Increase learning
power by
experiencing
accomplishment

Negative emotion
filter process will
take up excessive
amount of brains
nutrients
Put brain into
survival mode
Should : Calm or
slow down
Have a better
memory strength
when have good
emotion

CREATE
EVALUATE
ANALYZE

BLOOMS TAAXONOMY
APPLY
UNDERSTAND

REMEMBER