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From the Ted Talk by Allan Jones: A map of the brain

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Scientists, sort of at the end of the 20th crentuy, leneard that they could trcak blood flow to map non-invasively where activity was going on in the human brain. So for example, they can see in the back part of the brain, which is just tnnuirg around there. There's the cerebellum; that's keeping you upright right now. It's keeping me standing. It's involved in coordinated mvnemoet. On the side here, this is temporal cortex. This is the area where primary auditory processing — so you're hiareng my words, you're sending it up into higher language processing centers. Towards the front of the brain is the place in which all of the more complex thought, decision making — it's the last to marute in late ahldouotd. This is where all your decision-making processes are going on. It's the place where you're deciding right now you probably aren't going to order the steak for dinner.

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Scientists, sort of at the end of the 20th _______, _______ that they could _____ blood flow to map non-invasively where activity was going on in the human brain. So for example, they can see in the back part of the brain, which is just _______ around there. There's the cerebellum; that's keeping you upright right now. It's keeping me standing. It's involved in coordinated ________. On the side here, this is temporal cortex. This is the area where primary auditory processing — so you're _______ my words, you're sending it up into higher language processing centers. Towards the front of the brain is the place in which all of the more complex thought, decision making — it's the last to ______ in late _________. This is where all your decision-making processes are going on. It's the place where you're deciding right now you probably aren't going to order the steak for dinner.

Solution


  1. century
  2. mature
  3. learned
  4. adulthood
  5. movement
  6. track
  7. hearing
  8. turning

Original Text


Scientists, sort of at the end of the 20th century, learned that they could track blood flow to map non-invasively where activity was going on in the human brain. So for example, they can see in the back part of the brain, which is just turning around there. There's the cerebellum; that's keeping you upright right now. It's keeping me standing. It's involved in coordinated movement. On the side here, this is temporal cortex. This is the area where primary auditory processing — so you're hearing my words, you're sending it up into higher language processing centers. Towards the front of the brain is the place in which all of the more complex thought, decision making — it's the last to mature in late adulthood. This is where all your decision-making processes are going on. It's the place where you're deciding right now you probably aren't going to order the steak for dinner.

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