Limbic System

Question 1

Amygdala

Answer 1

emotions, fear (Amy! wow you’re so emotional!)

Question 2

Hippocampus

Answer 2

memory (hippo in campus)

Question 3

Thalamus

Answer 3

Relay center

Question 4

Hypothalamus

Answer 4

reward/pleasure center, eating behavior

Question 5

Broca’s Area

Answer 5

inability to produce speech

Question 6

Wernicke’s cortex

Answer 6

inability to comprehend speech

Question 7

Occipital Lobe

Answer 7

Located in the back of the head for vision

Question 8

Cerebral cortex

Answer 8

outer portion of the brain

Question 9

Frontal Lobe

Answer 9

decision making, planning, judgment, movement, personality

Question 10

Parietal Lobe

Answer 10

located on the top of head. hearing and face recognition

Question 11

Somatosensory Cortex

Answer 11

Map of our receptors located in frontal lobe

Question 12

Motor Cortex

Answer 12

map of our motor receptors located in frontal lobe

Question 13

Corpus Callosum

Answer 13

bundle of nerves that connect the 2 hemispheres of the brain.

Question 14

Split-brain experiment

Answer 14

Images shown to the right hemisphere will be processed in the left, patient can verbally identify what they saw

Question 15

Lateralization

Answer 15

the brain has some specialized features- language is processed in the L hemisphere

Question 16

Brain Plasticity

Answer 16

Brain can heal itself