ch. 3

Question 1

the cortex

Answer 1

wrinkly part of the brain

Question 2

what is the cortex divided into

Answer 2

2 hemispheres

Question 3

contra laterally organized

Answer 3

information from the right side of the body is processed on the left and vice verse

Question 4

corpus callosum

Answer 4

band of tissue that connects the two hemispheres and allows them to communicate

Question 5

primary sensory areas

Answer 5

primary visual cortex, primary auditory cortex, somatosensory cortex, the processing of specific sensory input

Question 6

motor cortex

Answer 6

send signals to motor neurons, controls motion

Question 7

Association cortex (everything else)

Answer 7

integrate sensory info. to perform complex functions

Question 8

topographic organization

Answer 8

adjacent portions of cortex control adjacent body parts

Question 9

penfield (experiment guy)

Answer 9

wanted to know what was in the brain, looked in peoples brains during surgery

Question 10

four lobes

Answer 10

frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital

Question 11

frontal lobe

Answer 11

involved in motion and higher order cognition, such as reasoning, planning and language production also mood and personality

Question 12

Phineas Gage

Answer 12

working on railroad then hit a rod went up his jaw out of his head, he lived, mood changed

Question 13

frontal lobe contains

Answer 13

notable areas, prefrontal cortex, motor cortex and broca’s area

Question 14

parietal lobe

Answer 14

important for touch sensation, perception, object recognition and number representation

Question 15

parietal lobe contains

Answer 15

notable areas, somatosensory

Question 16

temporal lobe

Answer 16

important for auditory sensation, cortex understanding language and storing autobiographical memory

Question 17

notable area contains

Answer 17

primary auditory cortex, wernickes area, primary visual cortex

Question 18

occipital lobe

Answer 18

important for vision

Question 19

broca’s aphasia

Answer 19

inability to produce speech broca’s area important for producing speech

Question 20

wernickes aphasia

Answer 20

inability to comprehend speech

Question 21

wernickes area

Answer 21

important for comprehending speech usually split brain patients

Question 22

lateralization

Answer 22

some functions are only processed by one hemisphere

Question 23

Left hem.

Answer 23

right visual field, right hand, language

Question 24

right hem.

Answer 24

left visual field, left handed

Question 25

split brain patients

Answer 25

patients asked to say what they see, right side of brain controls left side of body and left side of brain controls right side of body