2.01: How the Brain is Studied

• Introduction
• Learn
• Try It
• Task

Introduction

What helps make you happy and sad? How do you even understand the difference? Can you guess what it is?

It directs your sleep and helps keep you awake. It works 24/7 and takes care of all the vital functions that you need to live. It weighs a little over three pounds but it allows you to remember your past, experience your present and look into and plan your future.

This amazing structure takes in all the information from your many senses and within milliseconds, it organizes, analyzes and interprets the information into meaningful experiences.

Have you figured it out yet? It’s your brain!