Extra Flashcards
1
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Central nervous system
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Brain and spinal cord
2
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Peripheral nervous system
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Everything else
3
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Frontal lobe function
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Thinking, planning, reasoning (motor area within frontal lobe)
4
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Parietal lobe function
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Receives sensory messages from rest of body: touch, pain, etc. and controls memory of objects and their uses
5
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Temporal lobe function
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Hearing, speech, and memory
6
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Occipital lobe function
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Vision
Primary visual cortex
7
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Sulcus
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Furrows of the convoluted cortex (valleys)
8
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Gyrus
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Ridges or raised portions of the convoluted cortex (hills)
9
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Sulcus vs. fissure
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A sulcus is a shallow groove that surrounds a gyrus
A fissure is a large furrow that divides the brain into lobes and hemispheres
