Description
Twice life size. Depicting the brain of a right-handed person, contrasting colors and hand-lettered captions locate and identify motor and sensory functional centers, focus on the intellectual role of the dominant left brain, the creative role of the right, and call attention to the emotional, sexual, memory, and learning functions of the limbic system. Sensory regions highlighted include the separate reception and interpretive centers of the visual, acoustic, touch, taste, and olfactory senses, plus sensory centers of the somatosensory cortex receptive to more than 20 specific body regions. Among the motor centers presented are 19 body regions controlled by the motor cortex, the premotor area, and the motor speech area of Broca. More than 120 hand-numbered features are identified in the accompanying key. Divisible into 4 parts, the Giant Functional Brain rests upright on a hoop support on an oval base of finished hardwood. Size, 9 × 8 × 12″ (23 × 20 × 30 cm).