#frontal cortex

[sarawolfheart]

Informational diagram: How sensory information is processed by the brain

Sensory information is taken in by the occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and/or the olfactory lobe.

The lobes send the sensory information to the somatosensory cortex.

The somatosensory cortex sends the information to the thalamus, which connects to the limbic system.

The information is sent to the amygdala, which gives initial/primal reactions to the stimuli.

The amygdala's reactions (including fight or flight response) are sent to the hippocampus, hypothalamus, and the frontal cortex.

The pituitary gland receives signals from the hypothalamus, then sends signals for the endocrine system to excrete hormones throughout the body. The frontal cortex sends rationalized information to the motor cortex, which controls voluntary actions.

Source linked below: "Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain: Crash Course Psychology #4" by Hank Green's Crash Course - February 24th, 2014

[nova-moon13]

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Scientific Research Notes of S. Sunkavally. Years: 1986 - 1990.

Page 98.

[tigerseyedagger]

My long term, boyfriend and I just moved in together (we’ve always practically lived together just in switch from mine to his) and I think my frontal cortex lobe has also developed and I have realize there is no chemistry in my relationship but we just got a house together and this is my first time moving away from home so very exciting to feel like an adult, but very awful to realize that the person that you’ve been loving for the last three years doesn’t make you feel like a woman 

[sueskatz]

i love these moments where you suddenly go huh i actually kind of like my body hair and it’s actually like you can feel your frontal cortex develop a little more

[unofficialchronicle]

Dharma Seed - A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart

1 hour talk by Tara Branch on Gratitude and the Human Disposition.

Story of 2 travelers (4:00-6:30):

A traveler came to the edge of a town and encountered a wise woman and was curious to hear about the town. He said "So, what kind of people live here?" And she said, "Well, what kind of people lived where you came from?" And he said, "Oh well, unfortunately they were pretty untrustworthy, they were just greedy and nasty, dishonest, and ill-tempered." And the wise woman said, "Well, those are the kind of people you will probably find here."

A couple days later, another traveler came by and he asked the same question, "So, what kind of people are here?" And she said, "Well, what kind of people lived where you came from?" And he said, "Oh! Generally really good-natured people, generous, patient, fun-loving, playful people." And the wise woman said, "Well, you will likely find the same kind of people here."

This story tells us a lot about how our level of happiness often comes out of how we perceive ourselves and each other: What is your habitual stance? Do you live in your negativity bias? Your Limbic Survival Brain? (do you always notice all the flaws, feel ready to protect yourself, fixated on what's wrong with other people). Or, do you live in the more recently evolved brain? (the frontal cortex, which is designed for "pro-social behavior"). Many people identify with the first traveler—especially when we're stressed, the limbic survival brain is alive and active. And, we can cultivate the same lens the second traveler lives through. We can learn to see goodness, and that will change. your. world.

If you find yourself living as the first traveler, remember:

It's not your fault. It is a product of our conditioning. (Societal, and Familial). And, when we blame ourselves, we only fuel limbic activity.

Everyone of us has the potential to evolve and awaken our hearts to a natural flow of gratitude, generosity, and happiness. It's part of being human. We all have all the equipment.

One of the most beautiful pathways to that awakening is to intentionally cultivate generosity and gratitude.

[angelusfangs]

Until your frontal cortex is fully developed, literally every single emotion (especially the very dramatic ones) should be taken with a grain of salt. Or maybe even a couple grains of salt.

[cheshirecat-rabbit]

Scientists Analyzed 24,000 Chess Matches to Understand Cognition - Nautilus

Chess offers a unique opportunity. It could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift…

I thought about how that must be shaping her brain, particularly the part dedicated to planning and decision-making, the frontal cortex. Compared to other regions, it’s uniquely malleable, or plastic. Stanford behavioral endocrinologist Robert Sapolsky calls it “the brain’s hotspot for plasticity.” Our brains are changing, forming new neural connections and severing others all the time, of course. 

But at a young age the brain’s plasticity is much more pronounced. This means that chess offers a unique opportunity. It could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives. This is because the moves of professional chess players in games, going back over a century, are recorded, and so researchers can objectively analyze the quality of players’ moves over their career, inferring cognitive rise and decline. And that’s exactly what a recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/44/27255#xref-fn-5-1

“The evidence reveals a hump-shaped performance pattern over the life cycle. Performance increased for more recent cohorts and over time. The age profile mainly changed across cohorts rather than over time, with the performance increasing faster at younger ages.”

Over the last century or so, chess players, the study shows, have been getting better as well as younger. This parallels the so-called Flynn effect in intelligence, or a notable rise in raw cognitive scores. “Performance increased steadily over the course of the twentieth century,” the researchers write, “but the data also reveal a steepening of the performance increase during the 1990s.”

Mastering chess appears to have long-lasting effects on the brain. A 2018 study concluded, after analyzing the brains of almost 30 high-level professional chess players, that “long-term cognitive activities, such as chess, may systematically influence the [white matter] properties of early memory, attention, and visual pathways.”