10.13 Notes

Question 1

Hypothalamus

Answer 1

Made up of clumps of somas; each clump has a different function; important for daily rhythms and drives (drinking, eating, sleeping, temperature regulation, and sex) and alertness

Question 2

Semantic memory

Answer 2

Facts

Question 3

Episodic memory

Answer 3

Experience; involved in the hippocampus

Question 4

H.M.

Answer 4

Suffered from seizures after an accident; surgically removed the hippocampus to relieve his seizures; suffered from anterograde amnesia Anna so he could not remember anything new consciously; he was able to remember being prepped with the pin by the doctor, but not the doctor

Question 5

Amygdala

Answer 5

Fear and negative emotions

Question 6

Corpus callosum

Answer 6

Tract of millions of axons that connects the two hemispheres

Question 7

Cortex

Answer 7

Made up of six layers called laminae

Question 8

Laminae I

Answer 8

Also known as neocortex; the outermost part of the cortex; the largest part of the cortex; sends info down; made of axons and glial cells

Question 9

Laminae V

Answer 9

Made of huge pyramidal cells; sends info to the spinal cord, basal ganglia, and brainstem; voluntary motor movements

Question 10

Laminae IV

Answer 10

Sensory info; gets most info from the thalamus

Question 11

Primary area

Answer 11

An area that has information going directly

Question 12

Secondary area

Answer 12

Integrates multiple pieces of info from various areas

Question 13

Which area does sensory information go to?

Answer 13

Primary to tertiary

Question 14

What area does motor information go?

Answer 14

Tertiary to primary

Question 15

Primary visual cortex

Answer 15

V1; Area 17; damage here can cause blindsight, prevents conscious vision

Question 16

Temporal lobe

Answer 16

Processes auditory stimulation; vision; emotions; facial recognition; Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas

Question 17

In right-handed people, where is Wernicke’s area?

Answer 17

In the left temporal lobe

Question 18

Frontal lobe

Answer 18

What makes you human and you personally; involved in planning, making decisions, source memory, inhibition of inappropriate behaviors, movement, and personality

Question 19

Source memory

Answer 19

Remembering where you got a piece of information

Question 20

Phineas Gage

Answer 20

Received frontal lobe damage; his personality completely changed

Question 21

Primary motor cortex

Answer 21

Also known as the precentral gyrus; located in the frontal lobe; send info to your spinal cord about motor movements

Question 22

Parietal lobe

Answer 22

Spatial processing; body sensations; primary somatosensory cortex

Question 23

Primary somatosensory cortex

Answer 23

Also known as the postcentral gyrus; located in the parietal lobe; contains the map of the body for sensory info; pain

Question 24

Limbic system

Answer 24

Composed of the olfactory bulb, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, cingulate gyrus; important for emotion, motivation, and memory