Homework Probe the Brain Activity

Homework – Probe the Brain Activity

 From the Life Science 8 Website, choose PBS Probe the Brain Activity.

 At the website, read the introduction you see.

 Click on Mapping the Motor Cortex: A History and read (two screens)

 After the second screen continue to A Map of the Motor Cortex

 Return to the Introduction and Click on Probe the Brain Activity

 Go back to the first screen and Perform the “Probe the Brain” activity

Then…

Answer these questions briefly. You may write your answers here:

What did Wilder Penfield’s experiment prove?

Based on what you read, what do you think is happening when someone has an epileptic seizure?

The website says, “Since the patients were awake during the operations, they could tell Penfield what they were experiencing. Probing some areas triggered whole memory sequences. For one patient, Penfield triggered a familiar song that sounded so clear, the patient thought it was being played in the operating room.”

Where in this patient’s brain do you think Penfield was probing when this patient “heard” a familiar song?