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The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain. Depending upon the position of the animal, it lies either in front or on top of the brainstem. In humans, the cerebrum is the largest and best-developed of the five major divisions of the brain. The cerebrum is made up of the two cerebral hemispheres and their cerebral cortices (the outer layers of ...
The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs, and making ...
Sheridan County School District #1 serves the western portion of Sheridan County, [1] including the following communities: Incorporated places. Town of Dayton. Town of Ranchester. Census-designated places (Note: All census-designated places are unincorporated.) Big Horn.
Neuroscience and intelligence. Neuroscience and intelligence refers to the various neurological factors that are partly responsible for the variation of intelligence within species or between different species. A large amount of research in this area has been focused on the neural basis of human intelligence. Historic approaches to studying the ...
Cortical white matter increases from childhood (~9 years) to adolescence (~14 years), most notably in the frontal and parietal cortices. [8] Cortical grey matter development peaks at ~12 years of age in the frontal and parietal cortices, and 14–16 years in the temporal lobes (with the superior temporal cortex being last to mature), peaking at about roughly the same age in both sexes ...
The central nervous system (CNS) is the part of the nervous system consisting primarily of the brain and spinal cord.The CNS is so named because the brain integrates the received information and coordinates and influences the activity of all parts of the bodies of bilaterally symmetric and triploblastic animals—that is, all multicellular animals except sponges and diploblasts.
Sheridan School District (Colorado) Sheridan School District is a school district headquartered in Sheridan, Colorado, United States. In addition to all of Sheridan, it includes portions of Englewood and Littleton. [1]
The district includes four schools, a K-8 school, one high school, a charter school, and an alternative school. As of 2008, the district had 1,042 [12] students and 69 staff members as of 2000. [11] In the 2009 school year, the district had 21 students classified as homeless by the Department of Education, or 2.1% of students in the district. [13]