I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts  of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Great question!
There are parts of your brain that we know control/ are involved with “thinking”, “speaking”, “moving” and “remembering” etc.
So an activity that involves all loves of the brain would be one where you would have to do everything at once. Teaching is something that comes to mind! So be nice to your teachers as they are really working their brains…
Hope that makes sense 😀
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I was thinking that eating a meal would use lot of your brain…. maybe not every region, but many of them!
Some of them include….
* Controlling the muscles in your hands, arms, face, jaw…
* Smelling
* Tasting
* Swallowing
* Digestion and control of your intestine
* Using the part of your brain that recognises the taste of the food (memory) and the part of your brain that recognises enjoyment (pleasure)
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I’m not sure. But I learned piano (after playing only wind instruments) in my 30’s, and it was the hardest thing that I ever did. I swear it used parts of my brain that I’ve never used before!
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There is a myth that we only use 20% of our brains! Not true.
We use all the parts of our brain at various times. We can see brain cells firing in all regions of the brain at all times. So the brain never really switches off.
However, the brain becomes more and less active depending on what you are doing. Scientists can measure the amount of energy the brain is using with a machine called a PET scanner. A PET scanner can measure glucose metabolism. Glucose is the sugar our brain cells use when they are active and metabolism is what we call the process of our brain cells working. So, using a PET scanner we can measure how much sugar is being used by our brain when we are doing something versus doing nothing. Scientists have shown that difficult mental activities like solving puzzles or studying use a lot of sugar.
Theoretically we could be using our brains a lot more all the time but we have a problem that we would use too much energy. So while it is true that we use our entire brain, we rarely use our brain’s full capacity.
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