The Gifted Brain

Gifted brains are fast and gifted individuals have faster reflexes. This refers to:

• neural expansiveness

• neural speed

• neural efficiency

• neural flexibility

Multiple neurons talk to one another rapidly and efficiently and enhanced by conversation, play, social interactions, and stimulation:

• Plasticity

• Redundancy

• Connectivity

Types of unimodal processes include:

• receptive language

• motion

• color

• expressive language

Neurons that are always changing based on new skills needed for the current situation or environment:

• Plasticity

• Redundancy

• Connectivity

The idea that if a person does not have the means to nurture gifts, the person might not reach their potential of giftedness is called Nature vs Nurture.

• True

• False

Gifted brains have greater connectivity between neurons. They are able to recruit connected neurons to assist in completing a task. This is the definition of:

• neural expansiveness

• neural speed

• neural efficiency

• neural flexibility

Allows neural responses or tasks to occur simultaneously :

• Plasticity

• Redundancy

• Connectivity

Regions of the brain that process a single type of information:

• heteromodal

• unimodal

• sensory

Gifted brains are highly efficient. They master novel tasks quickly until the task is routine. Surges in brain activity occur when a task is more challenging or new. This is a definition of:

• neural expansiveness

• neural speed

• neural efficiency

• neural flexibility

Which part of the brain is responsible for coordinating communication between different brain regions?

• cerebellum

• frontal lobe

• medulla oblongata

• occipital lobe