Mod 6

Question 1

the cerebral cortex consists of: outer grey bark structure that is … in order to create more .. for 20+ billion neurons
inner white stuff- … linking parts of the brain
180 + billion … cells, which … and … neurons and assist …

Answer 1

wrinkled; surface area; axons; glial; feed; protect; neural transmission

Question 2

(lobes of cerebral cortex) frontal lobes: involved in … and … and in making … and …

Answer 2

speaking; muscle movements; plans; judgments

Question 3

(lobes of cerebral cortex) parietal lobes: include the

Answer 3

sensory cortex

Question 4

(lobes of cerebral cortex) occipital lobes: include the … areas; they receive … information from the …

Answer 4

visual; visual; opposite visual field

Question 5

(lobes of cerebral cortex) temporal lobes: include the … areas; …

Answer 5

auditory processing; memory

Question 6

the motor and sensory strips:
output- … cortex (left hemisphere section controls the body’s … side)
input- … cortex (left hemisphere section receives input from the body’s …)

Answer 6

motor; right; sensory; right side

Question 7

body parts needing more precise sensation or control take up more

Answer 7

cortical space

Question 8

the occipital lobe deals with … information. auditory information is sent to the … lobe

Answer 8

visual; temporal

Question 9

when a person has hallucinations an fMRI scan shows the same … in the … as when a person looks at a photograph

Answer 9

increased activity; visual cortex

Question 10

more complex animals have more cortical space devoted to …/… …

Answer 10

integrating/associating information

Question 11

the relative proportion of the cortex devoted to taking in sensory information and sending out motor commands is … as the association areas are … (a … correlation)

Answer 11

smaller; larger; negative

Question 12

the frontal lobes are active in … functions such as …, …, and … of …

Answer 12

executive functions; judgment; planning; inhibition; impulses

Question 13

the frontal lobes are also active in the use of … and the processing of …

Answer 13

working memory; new memories

Question 14

phineas gage: case study- in a work accident, a metal rod shot up through phineas gage’s skull, destroying his eye and part of his … after healing, he was able to function in many ways, but his … changed; he was rude, odd, irritable, and unpredictable.
possible explanation: damage to the frontal lobes could result in loss of the ability to … and to …

Answer 14

frontal lobes; personality; suppress impulses; modulate emotions

Question 15

parietal lobe has many functions in the association areas behind the sensory strip:
managing … from multiple senses
performing … and … reasoning
monitoring the sensation of …

Answer 15

input; spatial; mathematical; movement

Question 16

temporal lobe:
some abilities managed by association areas in this ‘by the temples’ lobe include:
recognizing specific …
managing … input related to .., which helps the understanding of …

Answer 16

faces; sensory; sound; spoken words

Question 17

whole brain association activity involves complex activities which require … among … across the brain such as: …, …, …, … and …, …

Answer 17

communication; association areas; memory; language; attention; meditation; spirituality; consciousness

Question 18

visual cortex: receives … as visual stimulation
angular gyrus: transforms visual representations into an …
wernicke’s area: …
broca’s area: controls … via the …
motor cortex: …

Answer 18

written words; auditory code; interprets auditory code; speech; motor cortex; word is pronounced

Question 19

plasticity: the brain is …
if the brain is damaged, especially in the general association areas of the cortex–the brain does nor repair …, but it can …
it can form new …, … existing networks, and insert…, some grown from stem cells

Answer 19

flexible; neurons; restore some functions; connections; reassign; neurons;

Question 20

lateralization: going to one side; the two hemispheres serve some different functions. how do we know about these differences?
… revealed many functions of the hemisphere
… and … studies show more about the functions of the two hemispheres, and how they … with each other

Answer 20

brain damage studies; brain scans; split brain; coordinate

Question 21

left hemisphere deals with: 
... and ... 
... such as "trees" 
language: ... and ... 
... and ... 
... 
... and ...

Answer 21

thoughts; logic; details; words; definitions; linear; literal; calculation; pieces; details

Question 22

right hemisphere deals with: 
... and ... 
... such as "forest" 
language: ..., ..., ... 
... and ... 
... 
..., including the ...

Answer 22

feelings; intuition; big picture; tone; inflection; context; inferences; associations; perception; wholes; self

Question 23

to end severe whole-brain seizures, some people had had surgery to cut the …- a band of … connecting the hemispheres

Answer 23

corpus callosum; axons

Question 24

each hemisphere controls the … of the body and is aware of the … on that opposite side

Answer 24

opposite side; visual field

Question 25

without the corpus callosum, the halves of the body and the halves of the visual field …

Answer 25

do not work together

Question 26

only the left half of the brain has enough … to express its thoughts out loud

Answer 26

verbal ability

Question 27

each hemisphere does not perceive what each … sees. instead, it perceives the half of the view in front of you that goes with the half of the … that is controlled by that hemisphere

Answer 27

eye; body