Chapter 13 pt 4 Flashcards
functional brain regions do what
integrate information from multipe association areas
prefrontal cortex is located in
promoter cortex( frontal lobe)
prefrontal cortex is responsible for
though judgment, personality, planning, and decision making.
prefrontal cortex is still developing in
adolescence
wenicke area is located in
left hemisphere
the wernicke area is typically involved in
language comprehension
cerebral lateralization
two sides of cerebrum exhibit differences in highjer order functions
categorical hemisphere is usually in the
left hemisphere
categorical hemisphere specializes in
language skills, functions in categorization and analysis
the categhorical hemisphere contains
wenickes area and motor speech area
representational hemisphere is usually the
right hemisphere
the representational hemisphere is usually concerened with
visuospatioal relationships, imagination, comparison of sense.
the two hemispheres communicate through commisures like
corpus callosum
lateralization dvelops in
early childhood (5-6)
lateralization differs between
sexes
womans posterior corpus callosum is
thicker (more connections)
males suffer more functional lose when
one hemisphere is damaged
lateralization is correlated wit
handedness
in right handers the left hemisphere is almost always
categorical and speech dominant
in left handed individuals they may have ______ hemisphere be categorical
either
diencephalon includes the
epithalamus, hypothalamus, and thalamus
epithalamas has 2 main structures
pineal gland and habenuler nuclei