The document is a collection of notes on various topics related to biology and the brain: - The first section discusses habituation and having students record observations from different stations in their journals. - The next section asks questions about our senses and how senses work together to form perceptions. - Another section provides instructions for a research assignment on "Mike the Chicken" for extra credit. - Following sections provide notes on different parts of the brainstem and their functions, as well as other brain structures like the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, amygdala, hippocampus, and thalamus. Functions of glands are also discussed.

1. Music:
How Does a Duck Know?
By Crash Test Dummies
How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head off
and it will keep on running and twitching
[CHORUS]
When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face

2. *Today we will explore habituation in depth.
*New page in journal, titled: Habituation
*Record observations for each station. Separate
each observation station with space in your
journal.

3. *Do we only have 5 senses?
*This lab demonstrates sensory submodalities.
*How?
*Consider the sense of touch. Think of all of the sub
senses surrounding our sense of touch.
*Temperature, texture, pressure, pain.
*Senses also work together to form perceptions of our
environment. Example taste and smell.

4. * Research Mike the Chicken. Internet search not wikipedia. Need
1st page hard copy of site researched or no extra credit given.
* Three ?’s answered on paper typed.
* Who was he?
* Why is he famous?
* What specifically do we learn about the brain from Mike?
* 3 extra points possible/one day only.

8. Medulla
* does the “dull stuff” it regulates heart beat, breathing and
digestion. If the medulla becomes too intoxicated (drunk) you
can die!
* The pons:
* are a relay system for the rest of the brain. *(Pass On Nerve
Signals ~ get it? PONS)
* The midbrain:
* found at the top of the brain stem (approximately the middle
of the brain.) It performs our auditory and visual reflexes-
remember our discussion of reflexes doesn’t really involve the
brain. ~Ears and eyes can blink.

9. *Eye reflexes

15. *Hypothalamus
*Pituitary gland
*Amygdala
*Hippocampus
*Thalamus
*

16. * Maintains homeostasis.
* Keeps body in balance
with regard to feedback
from things such as
temperature and water
content.

17. What do glands do?
secrete hormones (chemicals that are
produced in one part of the body that
impact another part of the body)
Example Growth Hormone or ADH
The pituitary works in conjunction with the
hypothalamus to maintain (homeostasis) a
balanced state in our body.
Example of ADH (anti diuretic hormone)

18. * What does this gland
do?
* controls emotions
especially fear and
rage.
* Greek/Latin almond.
* Also associated with
the formation of
memory of emotional
events.
* “Amy got da guy mad.”

19. * What does this organ
do?
* Thalamus “throws the
signals around.”
* Relays sensory and
motor information into
connections with the
cerebrum.
* This allows us to
further process sensory
and motor information

20. * What does this organ of
the limbic system do?
* You never forget when
the hippo camps with us.

* Early memory formation,
consolidation of short
term to long term
memory.
* Latin for sea-horse