Ana Denise D.

Quinajon BSN1-A Title of the article: How Juicy Gossip Hijacks Your Brain I read trough the outline of the topics on the first pages and How juicy gossip hijacks your brain was one of the topics that instantly caught my attention. Why? Because gossips are just mediocre hot spot of life these days and gossips are just merely interesting. And people tend to listen to a person instantly whenever they say that I have the latest gossips. Gossips are just heard impressions for a person you havent met, peoples underlying probable facts about themselves, so and so forth. Gossips are interesting for me, it makes life so interesting. And thats why I want to know how gossips hijack my brain all the time whenever I hear them. I find the brain so amazing. And now I find it more fascinating now that this article let me know how gossips work in my brain or how gossips catch my attention. I always see Casey Anthony on the news and when I heard and watched her story, I find myself so angry with her especially when she was called innocent on her 2-year-old daughters death. She even wanted to be pampered up before her jurisdiction. Now that added up with the boiling of my anger for her. I learned in this article that our brains find gossips as a warning or just a precaution from harm about a certain gossiped person. We tend to learn about other people, whom to trust and whom to avoid. And the brain is the one who sorts out our attention, thinking and understanding. Thus whenever we hear gossips about people, we instantly itch and intently want to know about it because our brain wants to sort out assumptions on whats really going on with that person. The brain has a very protective function. Its not about the interesting part of the gossip anymore, its about how the brain wants to clear some things, assume and deduce about things and such. I really dont know how to apply what I learned in this article. Maybe I am just more aware on how the brain works now. On how protective and amazing the brain works with different information.

Title of the article: Why Do Some Songs Stick in Our Minds Forever? The article, Why do some songs tick in our minds forever? caught my attention and I want to really know whats the Science and Psychology behind it. Lyrics. Why do they really stick in to our minds? Some songs lyrics are instantly remembered for the rest of our lives even the songs that were played long time ago when I was 8 years old. There was the time in our classroom last year, me and my friends reminisced the old songs that were hit back then, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Eraser heads and many more. When my classmate sang Ang Huling El Bimbo by Eraserheads, I sang along greatly. I remembered every word to the song, even the others songs that my classmate made us sing with. Wicked isnt it? My insight about this article is that the brain works with information differently as we age. We tend to screen and analyze the information we are brought up to when we reach our early 20s and thus keeping almost all of our information in the left hemisphere and frontal cortex of our brain. But when we are younger, we are more carefree. We dont screen information once we accept it; we store it immediately to the right hemisphere part of our brains unknowingly, thus explaining the situation of me singing old songs after a long time of not listening to it at all. I wonder if Ill still remember some songs after years or so. Will I be able to sing our Alma Mater song after how many years or better yet when Ill be gray and old? The works of the brain, pretty fascinating I say. Title of the article: Does Pain Change the Brain? The article, Does pain change the brain? made me think, does concentration really affects you whenever you are suffering from any pain? It is interesting for me because Im suffering from a back ache especially at night and the only time I review for any test is well, at night. I cant properly review and I cant concentrate that much so does this article explain or rather answer my question that does pain really affect my concentration with my studies? The insights I had with this article is that it really does affect the brain. The concentration level of in-pain people is low compared to a person

without any undue fatigue. The brain really changes once there is an underlying cause of difficulty that is felt by the body itself thus transmitting pain and less concentration for the brain to work. I can apply my new knowledge with finding a way to treat my back issues at night. This will probably result to more concentration on reviewing and studying at night. It will be a great help if I have no distractions on any cause.