Magic and the Brain Vocab

short account of an event

• Neurology

• anecdote

• magic trick

• neural

pertaining to a nerve, the nervous system, or the brain

• Neural

• Neurotic

• Neuron

• nervous

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

a scientist who studies the brain and nervous system

• scientist

• neuroscientist

• system scientist

• magician

A neuron is a ...

• nerves that run through the brain

• a brain connection

• a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system

• positive charge in the brain

To be intuitive is to be...

• positive towards people

• understood without logic, evidence, or rational knowledge

• understood by using evidence

• a magicians aid

covered, filled, or crowded

• neurotic

• neural

• claustrophobic

• awash

What is neuroscience?

• the scientific study of the nervous system

• the scientific study of the hippo-campus

• the scientific study of the visual input

• the scientific study of optical illusions

someone who is critical towards others and may have negative opinions about human nature

• cynic

• neurotic

• neural

• awash

pertaining to the mental processes of comprehension, judgment, memory, and reason

• awash

• cognitive

• cynic

• neural

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

anything that causes a reaction or change in an organism or any part of an organism

• cognitive

• illusion

• awash

• stimulus