Brain Flashcards
1
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Frontal lobe
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cognition
intitiation of all motor activity (precentral gyrus)
Contains Broca’s area: expression of language (spoken language)
2
Q
Parietal Lobe
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processing body sense (except hearing, smell vision and speech)
3
Q
Temporal Lobe
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receives auditory input from cochlea Wernickes area (auditory comprehension)
4
Q
insular lobe
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planning and org. of speech output
hidden
5
Q
subcortical structures group of nuclei responsible for? basal ganglia thalamus subthalamus
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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