Chapter 11

Question 1

primary motor areas

Answer 1

front lobes, control voluntary muscles

Question 2

Broca’s area

Answer 2

anterior to primary motor cortex
usually in left hemisphere
controls muscles needed for speech

Question 3

frontal eye field

Answer 3

above Broca’s area

controls voluntary movements of eyes and eyelids

Question 4

dominant hemisphere controls

Answer 4

speech
writing
reading
verbal skills
analytical skills
computational skills

Question 5

nondominant hemisphere controls

Answer 5

nonverbal tasks
motor tasks
understanding and interpreting musical and visual patterns
provides emotional and intuitive though processes

Question 6

short term memory

Answer 6

working memory
closed neuronal circuit
circuit is stimulated over and over
when impulse flow ceases, memory does also unless it enters long-term memory via memory consolidation

Question 7

long-term memory

Answer 7

changes structure or function of neurons

enhances synaptic transmission

Question 8

basal ganglia (basal nuclei)

Answer 8

masses of gray matter deep within cerebral hemispheres
produce dopamine
control certain muscular activities primarily by inhibiting motor functions
includes caudate nucleus, putamen, and globus pallidus