During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading from John Medina’s Brain Rules: “Sensory Integration.” Also, discuss how you think sensory integration relates to creating and reading multimodal compositions (combining words, sounds, moving images, graphics, body language, etc).
During lab, we will peer review the writing that you brought into class for Project Two. Your task, however, is to peer review with fellow students who you have not peer reviewed with before.
Remember: On Wednesday, we are meeting just outside the library in the Atrium on the 4th floor. Your reading assignment to prepare for our library tour and in-library assignment is to skim the sections linked from the Purdue OWL’s Conducting Research site (i.e., read that page and skim the pages linked from there beginning with “Research Overview” and ending with “Internet References.”
According to the Brain Rule # 8 “Stimulate more of the senses” John Medina describes sensory integration has a direct reference. Synesthesia appears to be a short circuiting in the brain way of processing the senses.Tim suffered from Synesthesia.When Tim sees the letter E he also sees the color red, also when he comes across with the letter O the world turns blue.Synesthesia the brain condition describes how the brain sees events. All of the 6 senses help us human learn.Sensing is rotating and receiving in one. Sensory Integration also relates to creating and reading. Scientist researched and found out all senses help you learn by working in a group and doing things differently.
Human absorb important information about a certain event though our senses,Which form into electrical signals.These electrical signals drift apart around the brain then reenact what happened.Our smelling senses have a power to bring back memories quicker then usual.
The Sensory Integration of Brain Rules by John Medina basically talks about the interaction of the brain and the human senses. Some people link seeing certain letters to colors because it is due to stimulation. Some kind’s kids were found to have a taste in their mouth whenever they saw a specific letter. For example, seeing the word “sky” and tasting a sour lemon due to sensory. “Stimulate more of the senses at the same time”.
The sensory information basically talks about our sensed and the way the brain receives information and how it goes about it. There was a kid who sees the a color for every letter , which means every time he has a book in front of him all he sees is a rainbow. He thought every one was like that when in facrt only 1 in 2000 people are believe to be like that.
So I have read the chapter known as ” Sensory Integration ” from John Medina’s ” Brain Rules” . Here is the chapter summary: In this chapter John Medina talks about all of our senses (i.e.- Sight ,hearing , smell etc) and how to they work together to absorb necessary information. After we absorb them with our senses they translates into electric signals. Our senses seems to work together .Which means the best way to remember something is to Stimulate more of the senses together. Which is also brain Rule # 8 “Stimulate more of the senses”. One example of that is:- If you want remember how to identify the element, “sulfur” you can do it by using your sight and sense of smell. Because sulfur looks like a yellow rock and smells like rotten egg. Now it’s much easier for you to remember.
Out of all the senses the sense of smell is the most powerful one. It can bring back certain memory, because the smell signal bypasses the thalamus(center of the brain).
For our own benefit the senses must work together ,otherwise the brain wouldn’t be able to function properly. If that happens then we might start seeing things. It’s called Synesthesia. Synesthesia is like a short circuit in the brain when it fails to process all the senses. There is a kid named , ” Tim” who suffered from Synesthesia. When Tim sees the letter ‘E’ he also sees the color red! Similar thing happens when he reads other letters. To him reading a book is like seeing a rainbow!
One more thing that I have found interesting about this chapter is- two people remembers the same event very differently!
After reading the chapter called Sensory Integration in John Medina’s “Brain Rules” It goes to show that we are sensory driven people with an active brain. We gather all information through all of their senses. The more senses we involve the more information we gather, the better our integration and understanding of this information we gain and receive, for example the way we learn is something that matters and how we sense things is something that shows how we learn differently through others. When information is presented by using multi sense’s itself, it is retained better then when presented using a single sense. If you involve more then 2 senses learning improves even more and you will also realize how much stronger our senses truly can be than the average human can think. When using your senses you can also remember things more thoroughly. Your senses give you that high ability. The moral of the story in this chapter is that human’s absorb more when using there sense’s which link to the brain comes to learning things. No matter what all the signals within your brain will give you a stronger power to learn when you use all of your sense.
In John Medina’s “Sensory Integration” chapter he speaks on how our senses work together and how it is important to stimulate them. He explains how the sensory information is transferred. Medina states that we absorb information about an event through our senses, translate it into electrical signals, disperse those signals to separate parts of the brain, then reconstruct what happened, eventually perceiving it as a whole. In this chapter it is said that our senses evolved to work together. Believe it or not we stimulate different senses at once. According to Medina, “Smells signals bypass the thalamus and head straight to their destinations which means that we learn best if we stimulate several senses. This includes the supervisor of emotions known as the amygdala.
Sensory integration can help people recall what the brain was processing a moment ago or at any time in the past. Some times when you hear a curtain sound or smell your brain goes back to remembering a past even when you once heard that curtain sound or smelled that curtain sent and you can remember some of what happened in that past. Sometimes it can even be a traumatic event since whenever a traumatic event happens your brain automatically puts its self on high alert and for the moment it remembers as many details it can possibly remember, hence the reason why a person would remember those few seconds and recall it perfectly after hearing about it again. Sometimes a past event cannot be remembered consciously, but subconsciously it is remembered and whenever you feel a curtain sense of that past traumatic event you start to feel light headed and over excited. Some people can use sensory integration to their advantage by studying with a curtain smell and then use the same with the test to help them recall what they had studied.
Senses help our brain remember an event. Two people will have different perception of the same event because of their experiences in life. Our brain gathers our sensory information such as smell, sight, hearing, tasting, and touch, when we are in an event. A multi-modal presentation can attract people more than a simple presentation. During a simple presentation, the audience is more likely to get bored easily and people will stop paying attention. In a multi-modal presentation, people will be seeing more interesting things and brain will be storing more information. According to Medina “every sensory system must send signal to the thalamus…. except for smell”. This shows that smell is a special sense for memory because our nose has direct path to our brain, which helps us recall a memory quick by smelling a same smell. Our brain depends on all of our sense to gather information and store an event and the environment during that event.
Sensory Integration tells readers that out brain thrives more off of sensory information. At the beginning of the chapter it tells us that Time relates the letter E with the color red, and the letter O with blue. This is an example of how we connect certain senses with one another to remember things. This is a brain condition called Synesthesia, which is a short circuiting in the way the brain processes the world’s many senses. The sensory process are wired in such a way that it works together. People can see a word and start to taste the word they see, like if a person see’s the word”chocolate”, they can probably taste it. The Mc Gurk effect is when you hear something like “ba” with your eyes closed, but when you open your eyes and see the word”ga” then your brain ends up seeing and hearing two different things, so your brain just makes up something like the word “da” instead, attempting Integration. Stimulating more of the senses at the same time gives your brain a positive way of learning. Smell boosts remembering things, all by itself its called the Proust effect, like when a former soldier, went to medical school to become a surgeon, the first time he smelled the burning flesh from doing surgery, he remembered a memory of an enemy combatant who he had shot in his face. The guy resigned the next week, the whole experience stood with him because of the smell of burning flesh. Smell neurons gain VIP access to the amygdala.
According to Medina, synesthesia come into view to be a “short circuiting in the way the brain processes the world’s many senses.” This also helps bring a powerful hint that our “sensory processes” act connected to function together. We assimilate data about past experiences through our senses which change into electrical signals, distribute those signs and breaks apart of the brain. This then reassembles what just occurred and changes what we perceived all together. The brain depends on events in making a decision on how to put together indications which can make a pair of humans recognize the similar memory differently. The smelling sense causes an abnormal capability to retrieve memories due to “smell signals bypass” the thalamus and go directly to their location.
In chapter “Sensory Integration” John Medina explained about how our senses work together and help us to retrieve information from our surroundings. Every person has different perception about the same event because they focusing on different senses that retrieve the information in different perception. Our senses help us to remind things because they work as median when we retrieve information. Our strongest sense is sense of smell because it’s directly connected to our brain. When ever we smell something familiar our brain instantly reacts toward it and remind us when we smell it last time.
Chapter 8 of John Medina’s “Brain Rules go over sensory integration, which is the stimulation of our senses due to our environment. For centuries, humans have always been curious and observational beings and one of our essential senses that intertwine with the other four would be smell. As John Medina explains, “We absorb information about an event through our senses, translate into electrical signals (some for sight, others from sound, etc), disperse those signals to separate parts of the brain, then reconstruct what happened, eventually perceiving the event as a whole”. Meaning, that our minds receive various pieces of information that it is then stored to be used for a later time.
Rahat Ahmed
Prof. J
English
10/25/15
Brain Rules “Sensory Integration”
In this chapter called “Sensory Integration”, Dr. John Medina states that we absorb information about an event through our senses, translate it into electrical signals (some for sight, others for sound, ect.), disperse those signals to separate parts of the brain, then reconstruct what happened, eventually perceiving that event as a whole. I found this chapter to be very interesting because I am very fond of the human brain and how it generates so much information in such a small place. According to Dr. John Medina, “The human brain seems to rely partly on past experience in deciding how to combine these signals, so two people can perceive the same event very differently”, this is very true because every time my brother and I have an argument about a certain situation that had taken place awhile ago, we both seem to say something completely different.
Our senses evolved to work together, vision influencing hearing, for example we learn best if we stimulate several senses at once. Smells have an unusual power to bring back memories, maybe because smell signals bypass the thalamus and head straight to their destinations, which include that supervisor of emotions known as the amygdala.
The chapter “Sensory Integration” explains how our brain relies and thrives on our senses. I remember doing this internet challenge with my friends that was called ” the whisper challenge”. Its a game where one person has on headphones that has music playing on high volume, to the point where that person cant hear any sound but what is playing on the headphones. Meanwhile, the other person has to mouth words for the person with headphones to actually guess what he/she is saying. During this game you can find it extremely difficult to focus on the music and what the person is saying. It seems like your brain is jumping back and fourth between trying to recognize either what the person is saying or what is being said by the music. After many fail attentions, you stop the music and ask what the person has actually tried to mouth to you in realization that the words never match up with what your eyes thought they saw. Therefore, having a simple sentence such ” why did the chicken cross the road?”. You thought he/she mouthed out ” the chicken ate the dog”. Sensory integration is highly focused on our sense. And our senses can trigger certain memories. Such as smell, smell has the power to bring back memories because smell signals bypass the thalamus and heads straight to it destination. For example, ever walk into a certain place and off the bat recognized a smell that links you to and event, place or even a person ? That your senses helping you recolonize old memories that you might have forgotten. Our senses do play an important role in our day to day lives but they also play an important role in our brain’s memory and how we remember it
Today we are here again to discuss John Medina and his book titled “Brain Rules”. In the next chapter of the book, Medina discusses the top of sense. To fit the topic, the name of the chapter is “Sensory Integration”. In this chapter we learn three important things:
The first being that our brain turns sensory images into electrical signals that are sent through our bodies through our brains to help us perceive events. Secondly, that even though we all can see an event at the same time, we can all perceive the event differently when compared. And lastly, our strongest sense for our memories just so happens to be our sense of smell. This is because our sense of smell is directly connected to the brain by passing through the thalamus. You see, when we smell something we haven’t smelt in a long time, it is like a tick in our brain. It suddenly ticks and we end up remembering what it was that we forgot from a long time. Essentially, it’s like we have a way marker in our brains connect to our sense of smell.
In this chapter of “Brain Rules”, John Medina talks about sensory integration, and how we absorb information. Sensory integration is how the brain senses the surrounding through touch, smell, sight and so on, and translates in in a way it can understand it. First the brain absorbs information and then translates it into electrical signals and then reconstructs what happened in a way it can understand it. The brain reconstructs that information based on past experiences, so two people can take the same event and have different views on it. One sense that has a weird power to bring back memories is smell, because smell signal pass straight to the brain. The beautiful thing about sensory integration is that our senses work together, meaning one sense can influence another sense, which means that we learn best if we use several senses.
In the eighth chapter of John Medina’s “Brain Rules”, he discusses the relationship between the five senses and sensory integration. This is the process by which sensory information from multiple sources is collected individually, then stored separately, but used in conjunction inside the brain to form your perception of our surroundings. Things that engage more than one of your senses tend to capture more of your attention and focus, because they send signals to a greater portion of your brain. This is why multimodal presentations are often more captivating, which is why many speakers include a visual, or a movie may include a soundtrack.