B2

Question 1

What is the function of the parietal lobe?

Answer 1

Language, calculation on the dominant hemisphere, somatosensory

Question 2

What is the function of the frontal lobe?

Answer 2

Higher intellect, personality, mood, social conduct and langue

Question 3

What is the function of the temporal lobe?

Answer 3

Memory and language

Auditory cortex

Question 4

What is the occipital lobe?

Answer 4

Vision

Question 5

What are the folds of the cerebral cortex formed by?

Answer 5

Gyri and sulci

Question 6

What are the fissures/sulci of the cerebrum?

Answer 6

Longitudinal fissure

Transverse fissure

Central sulcus

Lateral sulcus

Parieto-occipital sulcus

Calcarine sulcus - this is where primary visual cortex is at

Question 7

What are the different white matter fibres of the cerebrum?

Answer 7

Association fibres: same hemisphere (arcuate and fasciculi)

Commissural fibres: between hemispheres e.g corpus callosum

Projection fibres: cerebral cortex to CNS e.g. corona radiata

Question 8

What does the corona radiata form?

Answer 8

Internal capsule

Question 9

What are the divisions of the internal capsule?

Answer 9

Anterior and posterior limbs

Genu and retrolenticular - LGN to visual cortex and MGN to auditory cortex

Question 10

What are the language centres?

Answer 10

Wernicke’s area (sensory)

Broca’s area (expressive)

Linked by Arcuate Fasciculus (conductive)