Chapter 3B Quiz Flashcards
PET scan
radioactive form of glucose movement while brain performs a specific task
MRI
magnetic resonance imaging shows brain anatomy
fmri
same
brain regions
travel from eldest to youngest
severing the reticular formation
COMA
visual info in voluntary movement
occipital and cerebrum
damage to cerebellum
no balance!!!!!!
brain region that influences the endocrine system
limbic system and hypothalamus
“reward centers” int he brain
hypothalamus amygdala!
covers the cerebrum
cerebral cortex
occipital lobe
see
temporal
auditory
frontal
decisions and judgment
sensory cortex
registers and processes boyd touch movment sensations
motor cortex
voluntary movement
association areas
higher mental functions such as learning remembering thinking and speaking
wernick’s area
lagnuage reception
plasticity
brains ability to change
hemispherectomy
half the brain (one hemisphre) is removed
corpus callosum
connects two hemispheres and connects info between the 2
deaf people
left hemisphere
right hemisphere
commands
shapes music
ideas spatial relationships
left hemisphere
movements muscls
speaking writing words numbers
cognitive neuroscientists
study brain activity linked with cognition (perception thinking memory and language)
dual processing
info. is often simultaneously procssd on separate conscious and unconscious tracks