ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY DETAILS ABOUT YOUR PREFRONTAL CORTEX Brain Flash Card #12 April 24, 2016 WHAT IS YOUR PREFRONTAL CORTEX AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? BRAIN SCIENCE FACTS What is the purpose and function of your prefrontal cortex or PFC? The purpose of your prefrontal cortex is to make you the master of your emotions, which means that it gives you executive control over your feelings and bodily movements, if you know how to manage your emotions. It is helpful to simplify the most complex three pounds of matter in the universe (your brain) by integrating the idea of your prefrontal cortex with the overall concept of the global connectivity of your brain's structures and their functions. You can explore how the brain idea of prefrontal cortex relates to the new brain idea about your brain's global connectivity by momentarily focusing your attention on the following circular symbol and the #12 red arrow: See #12 = PREFRONTAL CORTEX THIS SYMBOL REPRESENTS A SIMPLIFIED HOLISTIC VIEW OF THE GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY NECESSARY FOR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS This circular symbol was created to convey a powerful visual image of the previously unimaginable coalescence of the many diverse and interactive physical brain structures that form the wonderful new idea of your self-manifesting holistic brain. The symbol of 14 red arrows pointing toward the circle of human consciousness, depicts a conscious living human brain that is made up of many parts with a sum total of meaning that is greater than all of its separate parts. Each of the 15 brain ideas in the image can converge and merge in your mind to produce the process of your self-directed neuroplasticity or, more simply, your mental force. Everybody, no matter what their age, needs to cope with life's great issues and make fulfilling decisions daily. The best way to cope now is to apply critical thinking and reading skills to create your own goals and plans based upon humanistic values. Critical thinking and reading skills involve asking questions to satisfy your curiosity. At the most profound philosophical level of abstraction, they can be about the nature of reality and the ultimate purpose of the universe. The questions you ask yourself and your most trusted friends and relatives can involve the most serious kinds of intellectual activity as you make your own life meaningful within the social context that you were born into first and later within the personal context that you create for yourself. Printable PDF Form DETAILS ABOUT YOUR PREFRONTAL CORTEX (for your own editing and memory consolidation) RECOMMENDATION: Print this PDF version and read it. Underline or highlight with colors the most important new brain ideas to save them in your long-term memory. Then edit this text to personalize it and read your edited version of these ideas in a few hours and in a few days and then a week later to take advantage of the spaced-repetition method of learning. instantly return to: 15 STEPS TO THE STAIRWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT or instantly return to: ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™