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Fear, reward, salience

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Amygdala

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Minor connection between the hemispheres

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Anterior Commissure

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Habit learning, reward learning

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Basal Ganglia

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Movement, habit learning, reward learning

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Caudate Nucleus

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Divides the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe

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Central Sulcus

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Fine movement

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Cerebellum

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Distributes cerebral spinal fluid from 4th ventricle, under inferior
colliculus, and to third ventricle

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Cerebral Aqueduct

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All outer gray matter

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Cerebrum

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Social valuation, conflict monitoring

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Cingulate Gyrus

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Sulcus above the cingulate

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Cingulate Sulcus

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Attention, awareness

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Claustrum

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Major connection between the hemispheres

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Corpus Callosum

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Connects the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies

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Fornix

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Distributes/stores/produces cerebral spinal fluid under the cerebellum

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Fourth Ventricle

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Goals and how to achieve them

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Frontal Lobe

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Front of the corpus callosum

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Genu

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Cell bodies

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Gray Matter

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18
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Smooth voluntary movement

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Globus Pallidus

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Bulges in the cortex

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Gyri (Gyrus)

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Memory

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Hippocampal Gyrus

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Memory, navigation

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Hippocampus

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Regulates hormones to connect the nervous system to the endocrine
system

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Hypothalamus

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hearing

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Inferior Colliculus

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Disgust, empathy

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Insula

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Separates the temporal and frontal lobes
Lateral sulcus
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Distributes/stores/produces cerebral spinal fluid
Lateral Ventricle
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Emotion
Limbic System
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Sulcus that separates the hemispheres
Longitudinal Fissure
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Memory
Mammillary Bodies
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Autonomic functions (breathing, heart rate, etc
Medulla Oblongata
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Vision
Occipital Lobe
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Smell
Olfactory Bulbs
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Where visual signals cross over
Optic Chiasm
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Transmit visual signals from retina to chiasm
Optic Nerve
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Transmit visual signals from chiasm to V1
Optic Tracts
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Goal directed behavior, decision making
Orbitofrontal Cortex
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Metrics about where/how-many things there are
Parietal Lobe
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Produces melatonin, sleep, circadian rhythm
Pineal Gland
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Hormone regulation (growth, energy regulation, sex hormones, etc)
Pituitary Gland (infundibulum)
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Automatic actions (respiration, reflexes, swallowing, etc)
Pons
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Minor connection between the hemispheres
Posterior Commissure
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Primary Motor Cortex
Motor homunculus
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Primary Somatosensory Cortex
Sensory homunculus
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movement, learning
Putamen
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Smell
Pyriform cortex (uncus)
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memory
Rhinal Cortex (entorhinal & perirhinal)
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Memory
Retrosplenial cortex
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Separates the pyriform cortex from the temporal lobe
Rhinal Fissure
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Back of the corpus callosum
Splenium
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Separates lateral ventricles
Septum Pellucidum
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Wrinkles in the cortex
Sulci (Sulcus)
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Vision
Superior Colliculus
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Memory, audition, speech
Temporal lobe
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Central transit hub for sensory signals
Thalamus
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Connective fibers
White matter
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Distributes/stores/produces cerebral spinal fluid around the thalamus
Third ventricle
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Olfactory
Smell -1
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Optic
Vision -2
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Oculomotor
Eyelid & eye movement -3
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Trochlear
Turn eyes down and in-4
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Trigeminal
Chewing -5
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Abducens
Eye to side -6
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Facial
facial expressions -7
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Vestibulocochlear
hearing and balance -8
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Glossopharyngeal
taste -9
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Vagus
swallowing and talking -10
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Accessory
shoulder muscles -11
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Hypoglossal
tongue movement - 12

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