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Brain SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Body cells p.41
▸ ▸ Feelings p.99
The brain controls the whole body. Every time we think, ▸ ▸ Human body

feel, or move, the brain is at work. It even keeps working p.130
when we’re asleep. The brain is the most complicated ▸ ▸ Robots p.212

organ in the living world. ▸ ▸ Sight p.226
▸ ▸ Sleep p.231

Brain

Movement
Planning
Nerves
Thinking
Touch

Understanding Speaking Judging
words Feeling
Sound
Taste
Recognizing
faces Smell
Feelings
Memory
Vision

The brain has an
area especially for
storing memories.
Brain areas
Brain map This area controls Senses
coordination,
Thoughts
Different areas of helping different Language
the brain are in parts of the body Movement
charge of different work together. Understanding Nervous system
jobs in the body. the world Nerves connect the brain
The spinal cord Feelings to the rest of the body in a
sends signals to Coordination network called the
and receives nervous system. Nerves
signals from the
rest of the body. carry information between
different body parts.

Acting alone
Thinking The brain does some things
The brain is made up of without us having to think.
tiny cells called nerves, or For example, it keeps our
neurons. They look like hearts pumping blood
little trees. When we
think, tiny electrical and Neuron around our bodies at the
chemical signals move passes right speed and controls
quickly through the cells. on signal. our breathing.

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