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NAME:_____________________ BIOLOGY 621 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: INTERNET ASSIGNMENT PART ONE Go to: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html Select Colors, Colors? Read the introduction on the AStroop Effect@. Select AInteractive Stroop Effect Experiment@ and run the experiment. Complete the activity for the two word sets. 1. How long did it take you to read the word set #1?__________ How long did it take you to read the word set # 2?_________ Choose ABack to Stroop Effect@. Name and describe the two theories that may explain the interference between what the words say and the actual colors of the words. ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Why might younger children have faster times for saying the colors in word set #2?___________ _____________________________________________________________________________. Scroll down, choose, and perform the AInteractive Directional Stroop Effect Experiment@. How long did it take for set #1?__________ How long did it take for set # 2?________ Describe what you found happened during set # 2.________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Select and perform the ANumber Stroop Effect Experiment@. How long did set # 1 take?____________________How long did set # 2 take?_______________ Are the tests that involve directions and numbers ( ie. the last two experiments) easier or harder than the original colored word Stroop Effect? _______________ Why?_____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ PART TWO Go to http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/flash/million.html Play the AMill-Neuron-Aire@ game and state the answer to each of the following questions: 1. Where is your brain located? __________________________________________ 2. How much does an average human brain weigh?____________________________ 3. About how many neurons are in an average human brain?____________________ 4. What are the two parts of the central nervous system?_________________________________ 5. What is the name of the junction (space) between two neurons?_______________________ 6. What lobe of the brain is most important for vision?_________________________________ 7. Which of the following is NOT a neurotransmitter ( a chemical that travels from one neuron to the next neuron )?_____________________________ 8. What disease is characterized by an Aelectrical storm in the brain@?_____________________ 9. Which drug comes from a plant called Cannibus sativa?______________________________ 10. What do the arrows point to in this diagram?__________________________________ 11. What connects the left and right hemispheres (halves of the cerebrum)?_________________ 12. What part of the eye contains cells that respond to light?_____________________________ 13. Which of the following is NOT a layer of the meninges (the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord)?_____________________________________ 14. Which brain imaging method uses radioactive-labeled glucose (a sugar)?____________ 15. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his discoveries about the functions of the right and left hemispheres of the brain?___________________________________