Includes index

Introduction: what's in your head? -- Thoughtful beginnings -- The sum of its parts -- Walnuts and more -- Down the middle -- Righties and lefties -- Word power -- Building blocks -- Of all the nerve -- Two ways to travel -- Pain: it's all in your head -- Fast and slow signals -- Think quick -- Brainless circuits -- All in the wiring -- Protecting the goods -- Animal brains -- IQ -- Multiple intelligences -- Brain games -- Creativity rules and breaks rules -- Finding creativity -- Staying out of the box -- Thanks for the memories -- Sleep tight -- The real world -- Optical overload -- Flicker fusion -- Deep thoughts -- Sounding off -- Speaking of survival -- Touchy subject -- Communicating with touch -- Tasty smells -- Out of body experience -- Girl brains/boy brains -- A smarter future

An entertaining and informative collection of great brain tricks, experiments, puzzles, quizzes, and activities provides kids a cool road map to exploring the most awesome part of the body, showing how the brain, nerves, and senses work. Top science author Michael DiSpezio devises some bright fun to show kids exactly how their brain, nerves, and senses work. Entertaining, informative, and all in color, this varied collection of great brain tricks, experiments, puzzles, quizzes, and activities provides a cool road map to exploring the most awesome part of the body. Every point is made in a wonderfully clear and clever way, whether DiSpezio has children create a simple model of the brain by cupping both hands, or suggests easy-to-understand comparisons (a thinking human brain uses about the same amount of power as a glowing 60-watt bulb). From an outline of the brain's major regions and a look at animal brains to creativity rules and memory tests, every detail is illuminating. The author lives in North Falmotuh, MA

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