Instructions:

answer the following short answer questions.
1. What is the function of the temporal lobe? Give an example of an injury and how do scientists measure the damage? Describe symptomology of a temporal lobe injury?
2. Can we change our brains? Give an example and specific practice/technique to do so. (hint: check out MIT’s research on the brain and meditation + really comb through Buddha’s Brain to find solutions)
3. reflect on Ted Talk’s Healing Spaces with Esther Sternberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBOPRs1yRE&nohtml5=False
4. reflect on 15-19 of Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

Content:

1. The temporal lobe is associated with a person’s memory skills. It handles a variety of tasks that are important for everyday functioning. When damaged, a person may experience problems in sense perception, an inability to pay attention to what they see or hear, an inability to comprehend language, problems with factual and long term memory. It can also cause emotional disturbances and could lead to altered sexual behaviors and drastic change in personality (for example, becoming obsessive, or loss of sense of humor) (Centre for Neuroskills 2016).