Lobes Flashcards
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Frontal Lobe
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- largest lobe
- responsible for problem solving, personality, decision making and production of speech (Broca’s area)
- contains Primary motor cortex - voluntary movement
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Parietal Lobe
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- upper back half of brain
- responsible for direction, spatial awareness and processing sensory information
- contains primary somatosensory cortex
3
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Primary Somatosensory Cortex
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- receives and processes information about touch, temperature and position of muscles. Each body part has a larger or smaller section
4
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Occipital Lobe
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- dedicated to vision
- left lobe receives information from the right visual field
- right lobe receives information from the left visual field
- contains primary visual cortex
5
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Temporal Lobe
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- located next to ears
- responsible for hearing and language comprehension
- recognises faces, songs, places and paintings
- contains primary auditory cortex
6
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Thalamus
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the arrival place for sensory information and then is replayed to a certain area of the somatosensory cortex
7
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Hypothalamus
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regulates body temperature, appetite, thirst and hormones
8
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Hippocampus
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responsible for making new memories and also the direction finder/navigator
9
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Pineal Gland
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controls our internal body clock, regulates sleep/wake cycle and releases melatonin
10
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Amygdala
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associated with fear and anger and plays a key role in our emotional responses
11
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Left Hemisphere
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- right side of the body
- speech, language and comprehension
- analysis and calculations
- time and sequencing
- recognition of words, letters and numbers
12
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Right Hemisphere
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- left side of body
- creativity
- spatial ability
- context/perception
- recognition of faces, places and objects
13
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Broca’s area
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- left frontal lobe
- coordinates movements of muscles required for production of speech
- production of fluent speech
14
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Wernicke’s area
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- left temporal lobe
- comprehension of speech
- interprets the sound of human speech
- making our speech coherent
