Cerebral Hemispheres - Severson

Question 1

What line divides the frontal and parietal lobes?

Answer 1

The central sulcus

Question 2

Anterior to central sulcus? What is ti used for?

Answer 2

Precentral gyrus and paracentral lobule - Area 4 Used for precise control

Question 3

What is the premotor area for? Where is it?

Answer 3

Motor programming or indirect motor movement control

located anterior to primary motor cortex

Question 4

What special field is located at the caudal end of the middle and superior frontal gyri?

Answer 4

Frontal eye fields

Used for voluntary eye movements

Question 5

The supplementary motor area controls what?

Answer 5

Motor movement initiation and planning

Cortical micturation control center

Question 6

The pre-frontal cortex is used for what?

Answer 6

attention, motivation, planning, problem solving, judgment, social skills, emotional behavior, personality, working memory (short term)

Question 7

Where is Broca’s area?

Answer 7

Areas 44 and 45

The left inferior frontal gyrus

Question 8

What do you lose if you have a problem with the right inferior frontal gyrus?

Answer 8

You lose your prosody of speech.

You can’t express your emotions in language

Question 9

Where is your primary somatosensory cortex located?

Function?

Answer 9

POstcentral gyrus and posterior paracentral lobule (areas 3,1,2)

Fucntion: localiation of touch

Question 10

Where is the somatosensory association cortex?

What’s it for?

Answer 10

Superior parietal lobule, precuneus

Use it for identifying objects with touch without seeing them

Question 11

What is the multimodal association cortex for?

Where is it?

Answer 11

Integration of sensory information

Inferior parietal lobule

Question 12

What do you use the left posterior parietal lobule for?

the right?

Answer 12

Left: analytical skills

Right: visuospatial orientation

Question 13

What is the function of the calcarine cortex?

Answer 13

thats the location of the Primary Visual Cortex

(area 17, the lingual gyrus and part of cuneus)

Question 14

Location of visual association cortex (for color, motion, depth) ?

Answer 14

Lateral, medial, and inferior occiptial gyri

Question 15

Where do you find the involuntary cortical eye fields?

(for scanning eye movements)

Answer 15

Lateral occipital gyri

Question 16

Where do you fidn the primary auditory cortex?

(for hearing)

Answer 16

Areas 41 and 42

The Trasnverse temporal gyri

Question 17

What do you call the area surrounding the primary auditory cortex?

What’s it for?

Answer 17

Thats the auditory association cortex

Wernicke’s area in the superior temporal gyrus!

For language comprehension!!!!!!!!!!!

Question 18

Where is short-term memory incorporated into long-term memory?

Answer 18

The hippocampal formation

(within the temporal lobe)

Question 19

Limbic lobe parts:

Answer 19

Septum

Cingulate gyrus

Isthmus of cngulate gyrus

parahippocmapl gyrus

hippocampus

Question 20

What are the anterior and posterior parts of the limbic lobe for?

Answer 20

Anterior: emotional behavior and homeostasis

Posterior: Leranign and memory

Question 21

Where is the lcoation of the primary olfacotry cortex?

Answer 21

Rostral parahippocampal gyrus, uncus, temporal pole

Question 22

Part of the brain that has to do with pain

Answer 22

Insula lobe

Question 23

What is the middle bend of the internal capsule called?

Answer 23

the genu

Question 24

What is anosognosis and what kind of lesion causes this problem?

Answer 24

Lack of awareness of disease

Occurs with lesions involving the right parietal lobule

Question 25

Broca’s area vs Wericke’s area problems:

Answer 25

Broca’s aphasia: Expressive aphasia - cant form speech

Wernicke’s aphase: Receptive Aphasia - Failure to recognize or comprehend meaning of known words