Brain Flashcards

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Occipital Lobe

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-Sight-> visual
-Back portion of brain

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Parietal Lobe

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-Perception
-Sensory
-Top middle section of the brain

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Temporal Lobe

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-Memory
-Sound-> hearing
-Bottom section of the brain

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Frontal Lobe

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-Problem solving
-Personality
-Located at the front of the brain

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Broca’s Area

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-Speech production
-Located in the frontal lobe
-Broca’s aphasia: damage inhibits normal speech production

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Wernicke’s Area

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-Language comprehension
-Damage leads to someone who can speak in phrases that sound fluent but lack meaning

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Somatosensory Cortex

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-Processes the body’s senses
-Located in the parietal lobe

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Motor Cortex

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-Movement
-Located in the frontal lobe

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Corpus Callosum

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Neuron’s connecting the LH and the RH allowing them to communicate with each other

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Left Hemisphere

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Language, logic, reasoning

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Right Hemisphere

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Creative thinking

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Hippocampus

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Memory

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Sylvian Fissure

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The small gap in each hemisphere that separates the frontal and parietal lobe from the temporal lobe

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