Your frontal lobes (pre-frontal cortex) are responsible for planning, organizing, prioritizing, changing gears and decision making, among other jobs. Scientists have decided to call this executive functioning.
The frontal lobes are really a collection of “conductors and managers” each focusing on a particular kind of skill or task. They all work collaboratively in a team effort!
Multi tasking affects long term memory of new and complex information
It is more difficult for middle school and high school students accurately identify facial expressions.
The emotional part of your brain is more developed to respond to situations before the rational/logical part does.
The area responsible for getting you motivated needs more stimulation than the same region in adults
Full “prefrontal lobe” development doesn’t finish up until we are nearly 30, some research has found.
Your brain is a flexible organ, continuing to change over time.
