Brain Flashcards
Occipital Lobe
-Sight-> visual
-Back portion of brain
Parietal Lobe
-Perception
-Sensory
-Top middle section of the brain
Temporal Lobe
-Memory
-Sound-> hearing
-Bottom section of the brain
Frontal Lobe
-Problem solving
-Personality
-Located at the front of the brain
Broca’s Area
-Speech production
-Located in the frontal lobe
-Broca’s aphasia: damage inhibits normal speech production
Wernicke’s Area
-Language comprehension
-Damage leads to someone who can speak in phrases that sound fluent but lack meaning
Somatosensory Cortex
-Processes the body’s senses
-Located in the parietal lobe
Motor Cortex
-Movement
-Located in the frontal lobe
Corpus Callosum
Neuron’s connecting the LH and the RH allowing them to communicate with each other
Left Hemisphere
Language, logic, reasoning
Right Hemisphere
Creative thinking
Hippocampus
Memory
Sylvian Fissure
The small gap in each hemisphere that separates the frontal and parietal lobe from the temporal lobe