Brain Flashcards

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Frontal lobe

A

cognition
intitiation of all motor activity (precentral gyrus)
Contains Broca’s area: expression of language (spoken language)

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Parietal Lobe

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processing body sense (except hearing, smell vision and speech)

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Temporal Lobe

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receives auditory input from cochlea 
Wernickes area (auditory comprehension)
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4
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insular lobe

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planning and org. of speech output

hidden

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5
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subcortical structures 
group of nuclei responsible for? 
basal ganglia
thalamus 
subthalamus
A

sensory and motor function

  • repetitive movement, muscle tone control, control of background movement
  • last way station for sensory info that goes to cortex
  • works with basal for motor control
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