Brain

Question 1

Example of head injury

Answer 1

Phineas Gage: rod took out a part of the prefrontal cortex. Damage impacted ability of self control and get along with others

Question 2

What are the 3 main regions of the brain?

Answer 2

The hindbrain, the midbrain and the forebrain

Question 3

What is the hindbrain?

Answer 3

Vital function like breathing

Question 4

What is the midbrain

Answer 4

Sensory functions: voluntary movement

Question 5

What is the forebrain?

Answer 5

The largest and most complex. Regulates emotions s and complex thought

Question 6

Important things in the forebrain

Answer 6

Thalamus (incoming sensory info)
Hypothalamus (emotions etc)
Cerebral cortex (outer layer and 2 hemisphere linked by corpus callosum)

Question 7

What affects the brain development?

Answer 7

Environment and biology

Question 8

How is the processing structure different in women?

Answer 8

Women’s brain seem to be more interconnected withore neural fibres and a slightly larger corpus callosum

Question 9

Difference in language processing?

Answer 9

Male: localized
Female: both sides distributed

Question 10

What is the homonculus?

Answer 10

Little dude disproportionate map of the brain

Question 11

What is apraxia

Answer 11

Move but no coordination

Question 12

Agnosia?

Answer 12

See but can’t recognize objects

Question 13

Prosopagnosia

Answer 13

See but can’t recognize faces

Question 14

Synesthesia

Answer 14

Cross sensory experience

Question 15

Different brain imaging

Answer 15

Pet : substances in blood

Fmri: checks oxygen in brain