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Because I’m like a blank sheet when it comes to neurobiology, almost anything I hear and learn is new and interesting. I am still trying to process the information about neuronal signals we’ve learned this week and make sense of it, so I don’t have particular reaction to this week’s topic. I did find the example of battery to represent axon very interesting and helpful. Some people have mentioned in the forum that battery example might be oversimplifying what the brain actually does. I agree with this, though I liked the example for this reason. I often feel overwhelmed learning about neuro systems of brains, because I don’t have appropriate images in my head. Many of the visuals illustrating the activities are illustrations and not real picture of the activity (because we can’t really see them). So example like battery helps me to create visual representations of the information, which then eases me into the topic. Another interesting thing about examples like this is that they made me realize that when this complex brain activity is broken down into the small parts, it resembles other organisms or objects that seem like they are too simple to even be compared with human brains. These were just thoughts that occurred to me while learning about more new information about brain this week.