Chapter 2- Inside The Brain Flashcards

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What does the medulla do?

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Controls life sustaining functions

Left and right crossed over so info from left goes to right brain

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The pons?

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Bridge between upper and lower section of the brain

Coordinates movement of left and right side

Sleep, dreaming, and arousal

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What does the Reticular Formation do?

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Network of neurons running through medulla, pons, and beyond

Allows people to ignore constant unchanging info and stay alert

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What does the cerebellum do?

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Controls rapid involuntary and voluntary movements

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3 sections of the brain?

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Forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain

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Parts of hindbrain

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Cerebellum, reticular formation, pons, medulla

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What does the limbic system do?

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Emotions, motivations, memory, and learning

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Thalamus

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Processes sensory info before sending it to the right part of the cortex

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Hypothalamus

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Regulates body temp, thirst, hunter, etc

Controls pituitary

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Amygdala

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Fear and memory of fear
Info goes here before anywhere else

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Cingulate cortex

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Inside cortex, processes emotions, cognitive reasoning, automatic info

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What are the parts of the limbic system?

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Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Amygdala

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Hippocampus

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Long term memories

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What is the cortex?

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Outer part of the brain, left and right sides (that control opposite sides of the body)

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Parts of the cortex

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Occipital loves
Parietal lobes
Temporal lobes
Frontal lobes

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Temporal lobes

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Auditory cortex and association

Amygdala + hippocampus (learning and memory)

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Frontal lobes

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Higher mental functions, controls voluntary muscles

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Occipital lobes

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Process visual info and visual association

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Parietal lobes

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Process info from skin and internal receptors

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Broca’s area

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Left frontal lobe, devoted to speech

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Wernicke’s area

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Left temporal lobe, Understanding meaning of words

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Corpus Callosum

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Allows communication between both sides of brain