Higher Level Functioning
- This section could go on and on and is therefore only a cross broad sampling. Higher level brain function typically involves the coordination of several areas of the brain, typically simultaneously. Deficiencies in higher level brain functions are complex and multifaceted. See also the Integration area above.
- Curiosity, Interest (emotion)
- Linguistics speech, language, Reading (process), Reading comprehension, and Writing
- Symbol, Semeiotic, Semiotics, Symbolic (disambiguation), Symbolism (disambiguation), Abstraction
- Logic, Deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning
- Mathematics, Lists of mathematics topics, Science
- Art, Music, Dance, Play (activity), Sport, Recreation, Entertainment, Amusement
- Bloom's Taxonomy - a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains":
- Cognitive - knowing/head
- Affective - feeling/heart
- Psychomotor - doing]/hands
- Learning, Education, Individualized Education Program (Individual Education Plan or IEP) - written, individualized educational objectives of a child who has been found with a learning disability.
Read more about this topic: Human Brain Mapping
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