brain structures and functions

Question 1

cerebellum

Answer 1

motor functioning, smooth and coordinated movements

Question 2

medulla

Answer 2

cardio, breathing, skeletal muscle tone

Question 3

midbrain

Answer 3

neural relay stations and coordinate reactions to sensory events

Question 4

tectum

Answer 4

neural relay center

Question 5

superior colliculi

Answer 5

visual

Question 6

inferior colliculi

Answer 6

auditory

Question 7

reticular formation

Answer 7

sleep, attention

Question 8

substantia nigra

Answer 8

produces dopamine

Question 9

broca’s area

Answer 9

ability to speak (damage results in lack of fluency, knowing words but unable to form them)

Question 10

frontal lobe

Answer 10

executive functioning, decision making

Question 11

parietal lobe

Answer 11

somatosensory cortex

Question 12

Temporal lobe

Answer 12

auditory

Question 13

wernicke’s area

Answer 13

auditory, ability to make sense, damage leads to “word salad”

Question 14

occipital lobe

Answer 14

visual

Question 15

basal ganglia

Answer 15

movement- affects parkinson’s

Question 16

amygdala

Answer 16

motivation, emotion

Question 17

hippocampus

Answer 17

memory (damage results in perpetual present)

Question 18

thalamus

Answer 18

relay center for sensory info

Question 19

hypothalamus

Answer 19

motivation, pleasure

Question 20

right hemisphere

Answer 20

spatial tasks, emotional processing, judging time

Question 21

left hemisphere

Answer 21

language, like reading and writing

Question 22

corpus callosum

Answer 22

bridge between left and right hemisphere

Question 23

split brain can occur

Answer 23

1. Agenesis of corpus callosum is from birth

2. when the corpus callosum has been cut to prevent epilepsy

Question 24

Right hemisphere controls left side of movement

Answer 24

left hemisphere controls right side of movement

Question 25

left visual field ends up in right hemisphere

Answer 25

right visual field ends up in left hemisphere