Neuro: Cerebrum Flashcards
What is wernicke’s area responsible for?
Comprehension —> understanding speech and can read
What is Broca’s area responsible for?
Speech, writing, signing
What do accurate fasiculations do?
Connect wernicke’s area to broca’s area
What lobes is the insular lobe continuous with
Parietal and temporal lobe
How did the cerebral cortex develop?
It grew around itself during development
What is located in the telecephalon?
Cerebral cortex and subcortical regions
What is located in the diencephlon?
Thalamus and hypothalamus
What is the primary sensory cortex?
The first cortical region that receives sensory input
Is the primary visual cortex a conscious system?
Yes
Most areas of the primary sensory cortex have projections from the ____________
Thalamus
What is the secondary association cortex?
A region that receives and processes more complex info from the primary cortex
What is another name for the secondary association cortex?
Unimodal association cotex
How many functions are secondary association cortexes responsible for?
1 function
What is the tertiary association cortex?
An area that processes input from more than one sensory/motor system —> it is a specific region with multiple functions
Another name for the tertiary association cortex
Hetero/multi-modal association cortex
What forms the connection between the hemispheres of the brain?
The anterior comissure
What does the superior longitudinal fasiculus connect?
All lobes
What does the inferior longitudinal fasiculus connect?
Occipital and temporal lobes
What does the inferior front-occipital fasiculus connect?
All lobes
What does the uncinate fasiculus connect?
Temporal and frontal lobes
What does the accurate fasiculus connect?
Wernicke’s and broca’s areas
What does the cingulum bundle connect?
The connections throughout the cingulate and parahippocampal gyri
What do the short association fibers connect?
Neighboring gyri within the same hemisphere (also called U fibers or accurate fibers)
What projections does the internal capsule house?
-UMN axons project down internal capsule
-somatosensory projections from thalamus ascend up internal capsule to somatosensory cortex
What shape is the hippocampus?
Seahorse
What shape is the amygdala?
Almond
