Chelsea's Psych Blog: Big Brain

BIG BRAIN

Hello! My birthday is January 20th so my super hero uses the hippocampus (in charge of memory like retrieving declarative memories and changing short-term memories to long-term memories) and dopamine (regulates attention, learning, and emotional responses) to fight crime. Here is my hero's back story...

In a small town outside of Seattle, there was a girl named Chelsea who had no idea what was in store for her. One day, she was studying for a 500 term vocabulary test and she was so stressed out! How would she memorize all these terms in such a short amount of time? She had no clue, so her only logical answer was to go to her family farm's giant corn field and pray. Upon arriving, she felt a little weird... it was like someone was watching her. Looking around, she saw no one but her and corn. Then suddenly a giant UFO landed in the corn field and abducted her! The aliens did experiments on her brain to try and understand how humans could be so stupid. They decided to help Chelsea out since they were disgusted of her little human brain by boosting the dopamine production to her hippocampus giving her photogenic memory and super-speed learning. However, since the
aliens had the beauty standard of having big brains, they gave Chelsea an enlarged skull, which produced the iconic name, Big Brain.

The Hippocampus

Her enhanced memory allows Big Brain to memorize things quickly by transferring them from short-term to long-term memory with the help of dopamine, which causes her to be able to focus. Now Big Brain travels across the country to stop crime. She dreamt of becoming a world class detective due to her quick processing abilities; however, her head is too big to fit in a detective cap, so she gave up on that career. Today, her most notable work includes memorizing the car plate numbers of escaping criminals.