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
in order to reduce or eliminate epileptic seizures in patients surgeons Philip Vogel and Joseph Bogen severed
the corpus callousness
punting a football would involve…
the pons (coordinate movement) and the cerebellum (control voluntary movement)
hearing your stepdad call you home from playing outside would use…
the thalamus (auditory input)
a cat arching cat it’s back and hissing at a potential predator
the amygdala registers fear and aggression the cerebellum and pons control the voluntary movements
learning a set of geometry theorems
the hippocampus processes new memories of facts and events
medulla
breathing and heart rate
precision and accuracy of a kick resulted from which part of the brain
the cerebellum
out of the five senses what does not send neural messages through the thalamus
smell
amygdala
fear
lhypothalamus
influencing thirst and hunger
