Neuroscience and the Classroom: Making Connections
Glossary
- Forbes, Esther
- Esther Forbes was an American novelist, historian, and children's writer. She received the Pulitzer Prize in History for her 1942 biography, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In; and the 1944 Newbery Medal for her novel, Johnny Tremaine.
- frontal cortex
- An anatomical location in the brain referring to one of four lobes (frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal) that is located behind the forehead.
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- A neuroimaging technique using radio and magnetic waves to indirectly index brain activity relative to specific task comparisons.
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