Lesson 2 - Cognitive Neuroscience Flashcards
responsible for all cognitive processes in humans and animals.
Brain
three main regions of the brain
Fore brain, Midbrain, and Hindbrain
includes the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and limbic system.
Forebrain
serves as a relay center for sensory and motor information.
Midbrain
important to emotion, motivation, memory, and learning.
Limbic System
allows us to suppress instinctive responses (e.g., the impulse to strike someone who accidentally causes us pain)
Limbic system
help us to adapt our behaviors flexibly in response to our changing environment.
Limbic system
Limbic system compromises three central interconnected cerebral structures:
Septum, amygdala, and hippocampus
is involved in anger and fear as part of the basal forebrain, supports many physiological functions, from sensorimotor integration to cognition.
Septume
Often reciprocal connections with a broad set of peers at all major divisions of the brain, the MS orchestrates oscillatory neuronal activities throughout the brain.
Septume
plays an important role in emotion as well, especially in anger and aggression
Amygdala
Stimulation of this part of the brain commonly results in fear.
Amygdala
Damage or removal of this can result in maladaptive lack of fear
Amygdala
Responsible for palpitations, fearful hallucinations, or frightening flashbacks in memory
Amygdala
plays an essential role in memory formation
Hippocampus
It gets its name from the Greek word for “seahorse,”
Hippocampus
essential for flexible learning and for seeing the relations among items learned as well as for spatial memory.
Hippocampus
It also appears to keep track of where things are and how these things are spatially related to each other.
Hippocampus
it monitors what is where
Hippocampus
plays a crucial role in the formation and retrieval of long-term memories.
Hippocampus
Damage if this can lead to severe memory impairments, such as anterograde amnesia.
Hippocampus
regulates behavior related to species survival: fighting, feeding, fleeing, and mating.
Hypothalamus
It is also active in regulating emotions and reactions to stress.
Hypothalamus
its importance belies in controlling many bodily functions.
Hypothalamus