Tell-Tale+Brain

Your "winter break" assignment is to procure a copy of The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran

Amazon link to used books

You will be reading a minimum of 5 chapters, the required chapters are 1,6, and 9, please pick two others that interest you in order to complete the 50pt project. Each chapter is correlated with the unit that it is very useful for in our AP studies. 2. useful for sensation and perception (Unit 9) 3. synesthesia (Unit 9) highly suggested 4. evolutionary biology (if you loved the first chapter of GG&S, this is your jam) 5. autism and mirror neurons, (autism is in three units for AP and could very well be on the exam) 7. aesthetics, fascinating but beyond the scope of our course. 8. symmetry, metaphors, very meta but "
 * 1. neuroscience (Unit 8), plasticity, lobes, brain architecture.**
 * 6. language and cognition (Unit 10) Broca's and Wernicke's areas in brain that control language.**
 * 9. consciousness and the self (Unit 12)**

The following summaries are to help you pick which chapters you want to choose to read, the summaries are inadequate for developing your understanding of the concepts. It is of course fine to read the entire book. Link to ch 1-6 summaries Link to summaries for ch 7-9

For each chapter, take notes in a way that is useful and comfortable for you. Please include the overarching theme or question of the chapter. Record questions you have for further investigation.

At the end, what patterns have emerged? What have you learned? What questions do you now have?

Please represent these in an infographic. Infographics are visually appealing representations of data or ideas. Here are suggestions for free apps for creating an infographic blog post You will turn your infographic in by either posting in the discussion section here on this page as a link, printing it out (color would be great) for display in our classroom, or by submitting to our pinterest page for this assignment. Just join pinterest and follow the page, I'll add you to it. I'll be most impressed if you post to pinterest.

Criteria for evaluation: Clarity (aesthetically pleasing and readable) Depth of reflection (connections made and thought process evident) Comprehension (demonstration of understanding vocabulary relevant to AP level study)