THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN MIND: BRAIN IMAGING AND EVOLUTION.
- Martin Sereno says that the title of his lecture may be a little _____________________.
- Martin Sereno will talk about why it is that humans have more __________________ power than animals, in spite of the _______________ between the organization of the human brain and the brains of other primates.
- The first thing he will speak about is the organization of _____________________ in primates.
- In the Renaissance, scientists thought that the sensory modalities joined at the front of the brain in what was called the _____________________.
- Scientists in the Renaissance did not think that _____________________ came from the tissues of the brain. They believed it was kind of airy[1].
- Memory was then supposed to be situated in the _____________________ ventricle.
- The main part of the brain we study is the _____________________.
- The little primitive animals shown on the screen evolved their eyesight for the purpose of _____________________ at night.
- The small brain of a tarsier [2]would fit into the _____________________ of a human.
- It is not _____________________ or ______________________ that make our brains more powerful.
[1] Airy: made up of or having the character of air; immaterial.
[2] Tarsier: a small, arboreal, nocturnal primate of the genus Tarsius, of Indonesia and the Philippines, having a long thin tail, very large immobile eyes, and prominent pads on the fingers and toes: all populations are dwindling.
KEY
- AMBITIOUS
- COGNITIVE – SIMILARITIES
- VISUAL AREAS
- COMMON SENSE
- THOUGHT
- DRIEST
- CORTEX
- EATING BUGS
- EYE
- SIZE – FOLDS
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