CH4: Cerebral Cortex Flashcards
Primary motor
Movement
Cerebral cortex is..
Grey matter of cerebrum
Broca’s
Motor speech
Primary somatosensory
Location for sense,body orientation
Primary auditory
Hearing
Primary olfactory
Smell
Primary gustatory
Taste
Primary visual
Sight
Somatosensory association
Identify by touch
Premotor
Memorized movements
Visual association
Identify by sight
Auditory association
Identify by sound
Wernicke’s
Words➡️thought
Comprehending language
Prefrontal cortex
Personality, concept of self
Common integrative (gnostic)
Tying together input to brain
Create concepts
Affective language
Link language to emotion
Gustatory association
Store previous memories of taste
Identify by taste
Frontal eye field
Scanning eye movement.
Martha received a blow to the head and can no longer distinguish between tastes. She can’t tell pizza from candy.
Gustatory or even olfactory
Barry lost all voluntary control of left arm.
Primary motor
Sandra is clinically deaf
Primary auditory
If Jim won the lottery you would never tell by listening not him talk about it.
Affective language, prefrontal, broca, wernicke
John appears to turn his head in every direction to simply look around the room he is in.
Frontal eye field
Sherri can no longer turn on the lights in the dark room , as she can not identify the light switch by touch alone.
Somatosensory association
Jane has trouble recognizing faces after a few minutes passed.
Visual association.
Since the accident, Bert can no linger play piano with much efficiency.
Premotor, primary motor, auditory.
Rev can’t tell If his car is running or if he is hearing dogs barking. Sounds are meaningless to him unless he is constantly reminded of what they are.
Olfactory
With her eyes closed, Edith couldn’t tell If her arms were raised or at her her sides
Primary somatosensory
Since the accident, Dennis has trouble speaking clearly. He understands what you say just fine, and he knows what he wants to say, but he is trouble forming words
Broca
