brain shit Flashcards
motor cortex
area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements
cerebral cortex
the body’s ultimate control and processing center that covers the cerebral hemispheres
somatosensory cortex
area at the front of the parietal lobes that processes body touch and movement sensations
association areas
areas of the cortex involved in higher mental functions such as learning and speaking
neurogenesis
the formation of new neurons
glial cells
cells that support nourish and protect neurons
plasticity
the brain’s ability to reorganize after damage or build new pathways based on experience
frontal lobe
main function is higher order thinking
parietal lobe
main function of the lobe is to receive sensory information
temporal lobe
main function is hearing and it also has areas important for memory formation
occipital lobe
main function is enabling vision and it contains several visual areas
tumor in left hemisphere function impacted:
ability to speak
right side of brain severe injury- tested with words- she is likely to…
be unable to make the inference necessary to produce the word
in Michael Gazzaniga’s classic HEART experiment with split brain patients he found that patients were able to
use their right hand to point to the word ART
replication of Gazziga’s experiment when shown an image of a frog in the left visual field the patients were able to
use their left hand to point to a picture of a frog
