Neuroscience Flashcards

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Frontal Lobe

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Problem solving, language production

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Parietal Lobe

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Attention, spatial processing(Where something is)

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Primary Somatosensory Cortexs

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Somatosensory processing (including proprioception/orientation)

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4
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Temporal Lobe

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Auditory processing, patter recognition (what something is), language processing

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5
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Occipital Lobe

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Visual processing

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6
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Corpus Callosum

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Connects each hemisphere

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7
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Gyrus

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Fold of cortical tissue

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8
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Fissure

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A cleft or separation between gyri

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9
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Sulcus

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A smaller fissure that connects two regions of brain tissue

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10
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Neocortext

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Higher mental functions, general movement, perception, and behavioral responses

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11
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Amygdala

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Emotional responses, aggressive behavior

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12
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Hippocampus

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Memory of new information and recent evvents

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13
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Corpus Striatum

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Basal ganglia: Connection between cerebral cortex and cerebellum. helps regulate automatic movement

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14
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Orbitofrontal Cortext

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deeper decision making, moral judgement, reflection,

and forming expections

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15
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Lateral Pre-Frontal cortex

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Meta-cognition and self-awareness

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16
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Storage of verbal material

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Posterior parietal cortex in left hemisphere

17
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Storage of spatial information

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Posterior parietal cortex in right hemisphere

18
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Rehearsal of verbal material

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perfrontal cortex

19
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Maintenance of spatial information

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Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

20
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Implicit or precedural long-term memory function associated with

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basal ganglia and motor cortex

21
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Regular declarative memory can be stored through out the

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medial temporal lobe

22
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Semantic memory is linked to the

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limbic (temporal) cortex

23
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Consolidation of episodic memory abd trabsfer if ubfirnatuib frin STM to LTM

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hipocampus

24
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Case Studies and Lesion studies

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Investigation of brain damage through brain conditions, and effects of brain damages by destroying specific brain parts