Central Nervous System Flashcards
What are gyri and sulci?
Answer: Gyri are the hills and sulci are the valleys of the cerebral cortex.
Which lobe contains the motor cortex?
Answer: The Frontal Lobe.
Where is the olfactory bulb located, and what is its function?
Answer: Located in the Frontal Lobe, it processes smells.
What is proprioception, and which lobe processes it?
Answer: Proprioception is the sense of how body parts are oriented in space, processed by the Parietal Lobe.
What functions are primarily associated with the Occipital Lobe?
Answer: Seeing, recognizing, and identifying the visual world.
What role does the hippocampus play and where is it located?
Answer: It processes memory formation and is located in the Temporal Lobe.
What type of matter surrounds the gray matter in the spinal cord?
Answer: White matter, containing the axons of neurons.
How do reflexes in the spinal cord operate so quickly?
Answer: They involve only a local connection between neurons and are not relayed through the brain.
