Forebrain Flashcards
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Cerebrum
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- largest part of brain
- dvided into right and left hemispheres
2
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Corpus Callosum
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- dense, compacted axons that bind to hemispheres together
- allows cerebral lateraziation
3
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Cerebral Cortex
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- thin and wrinkly outside of brain
- fissures(wrinkles) indicate higher intelligence
- contains all the lobes
4
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Frontal Lobe
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-largest surface of all lobes
5
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Functions of Frontal Lobe
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- speech production
- mood regulated emotion
- personality
- voluntary muscle control
advanced cognition - problem solving, hypotheticals
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Motor Cortex
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- part of frontal lobe
- sends bioelctric impulses to muscles for voluntary movement
- connected to cerebellum by basal ganglia
7
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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
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- part of frontal lobe
- judjment and descion making
8
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Broca’s area
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- found in left half of temporal lobe
- linked to speech production and vocal articulation
9
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Temporal Lobe
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- auditory cortex
- long term storage of memory
10
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Wernickes Area
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- part of temporal lobe
- left temporal lobe
- language comprehension
11
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Transverse Temporal Gyrus(Heschls Gyrus)
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- responsible for vocal signature idnetification
- temporal lobe
12
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A4 Medial Gericulate Nucleus
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- music processor - pitch, haromy
- temporal lobe
13
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Lateral Superior Olive
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- responsible for source location of sound
- temporal lobe
14
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Occipital Lobe
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visual cortex
- left eye is processed in right side vise versa
15
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V1 Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
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- feature detector within the visual cortex
- perception and recognition of color
- Occiptal lobe
16
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Fusiform Gyrus
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- responsible for facial recognition
- occipital lobe
17
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Inferiror gyrus
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- object recognition
- occipital lobe
18
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Parietal Lobe
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touch, taste, smell
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Somatosensory cortex
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- processes body sensations - pressure, temerature, pain
- parietal lobes
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Insular Cortex
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- essential hand-eye coordiastion
- parietal lobe
- alows you to be self-aware
- anything smell related goes directly here without going through thalamus
