Neuroscience and Behavior

Question 1

How are the two hemispheres of the brain connected?

Answer 1

Corpus callosum

Question 2

What does damage to the occipital lobe cause?

Answer 2

Partial or complete blindness even if eyes are fine

Question 3

Return to normal resting state. Rest and digest

Answer 3

Parasympathetic nervous system

Question 4

Impacts production of speech but not comprehension

Answer 4

Broca’s aphasia

Question 5

What does the occipital lobe do?

Answer 5

Processes visual info

Question 6

What does the hypothalamus do?

Answer 6

Feeding, fighting, fleeing, fornication. Homeostasis (regulation of body functions)

Question 7

What does the thalamus do?

Answer 7

Gateway to the cortex; info must move through it to get to cortex; it decides what goes on to the cortex. Sensation, memory, and states of consciousness (helps us sleep)

Question 8

What does the parietal lobe do?

Answer 8

Processes info about touch, pain, body position, skin temp

Question 9

What does damage to Wernicke’s area cause?

Answer 9

Can’t comprehend speech and your ability to produce speech is hindered; you say sentences that don’t make sense

Question 10

Transmits commands for voluntary movement from the CNS to the muscles

Answer 10

somatic nervous system

Question 11

What does the midbrain do?

Answer 11

Involved in sensory reflexes, movement, and pain

Question 12

What parts of the brain are in the hindbrain?

Answer 12

Medulla, reticular formation, cerebellum, and pons

Question 13

Produces melatonin, maintenance of sleep-wake cycles

Answer 13

pineal gland

Question 14

What area is in the temporal lobe?

Answer 14

Wernicke’s area

Question 15

Study state of arousal of neurons

Answer 15

EEG

Question 16

4 lobes

Answer 16

Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal

Question 17

what do the nucleus accumbens do?

Answer 17

Reward and pleasure center and addiction

Question 18

What does the cerebellum do?

Answer 18

Balance and motor coordination. One of first to be affected by alcohol

Question 19

What does the hindbrain do?

Answer 19

Involved in basic functions of the body

Question 20

What does the pons do?

Answer 20

Connects the cerebellum to the rest of the brain. Sleep, arousal, and facial expressions. Bridges higher and lower portions of brain

Question 21

What does the cingulate cortex do?

Answer 21

Involved in almost everything. Anterior - decision making, emotion, anticipation, reward, empathy
Posterior - memory and visual processing

Question 22

Prepare for action. Fight or flight

Answer 22

sympathetic nervous system

Question 23

Body’s master gland, growth hormones

Answer 23

pituitary gland

Question 24

What does the amygdala do?

Answer 24

Emotional processing. Identifying, remembering, and responding to fear and aggression

Question 25

What two structure groups make up the forebrain?

Answer 25

Subcortical and cerebral cortex

Question 26

What does the medulla do?

Answer 26

Involved in vital functions like heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, coughing, vomiting, etc.

Question 27

Study what parts of the brain are active during a certain task

Answer 27

fMRI

Question 28

What is the cingulate cortex?

Answer 28

Fold of tissue on inner surface of cerebral hemisphere

Question 29

What does the frontal lobe do?

Answer 29

Abstract thinking, planning, judgement, reasoning, problem solving

Question 30

What does the primary motor cortex do?

Answer 30

Controls voluntary movement

Question 31

Controls body's metabolism, activates adrenal glands

Answer 31

thyroid gland

Question 32

What does Wernicke's area do?

Answer 32

Speech comprehension

Question 33

Release of hormones into blood, made of glands, involved with arousal metabolism, growth, sex

Answer 33

endocrine system

Question 34

What does the basal ganglia do?

Answer 34

Involved with voluntary movement. Involved in Parkinson's, ADHD, and OCD

Question 35

Three parts of autonomic nervous system

Answer 35

sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric

Question 36

What is in the frontal lobe?

Answer 36

Primary motor cortex and Broca's area

Question 37

What does Broca's area do?

Answer 37

Production of speech

Question 38

Nerve cells in the lining of the gastrointestinal system. Gastrointestinal pain, hunger, satiety (fullness), interacts with the endocrine system. Tells the brain how you're feeling

Answer 38

Enteric nervous system

Question 39

What does the reticular formation do?

Answer 39

Control of mood, arousal, and sleep. Why we don't respond during sleep but do when awake

Question 40

What is the cerebral cortex?

Answer 40

Outermost layer of the brain visible to the naked eye and divided into two parts

Question 41

What does the hippocampus do?

Answer 41

Formation of long term memories and spatial information processing

Question 42

Carries involuntary and automatic commands that control blood vessels, body organs, and glands

Answer 42

autonomic nervous system

Question 43

Left hem controls right side and right hem controls left side

Answer 43

Lateralization

Question 44

What is the forebrain involved in?

Answer 44

Highest level of the brain that controls complex cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor functions

Question 45

What are the subcortical structures?

Answer 45

Thalamus, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, hippocampus, cingulate cortex, amygdala, and nucleus accumbens

Question 46

What happens when your left or right hem is damaged? What type of lobe damage?

Answer 46

You stop taking in info from the opposite side of the body. Parietal lobe damage

Question 47

Studying behavior before and after brain damage

Answer 47

lesion studies