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Parts Of The Brain Flashcards

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Frontal Lobe

Motor Cortex

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Plans and executes voluntary movements

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Frontal Lobe

Basal Ganglia

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Smooths movement generated by motor cortex

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Frontal Lobe

Broca’s area

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Controls speech, adds grammar

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Frontal Lobe

Prefrontal cortex

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Involved in planning, impulse control

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Parietal lobe

Somatosensory cortex

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Projection area for body senses

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Parietal lobe

Association area

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Location of body and objects in space

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Temporal lobe

Auditory cortex

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Projection area for auditory information

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Wernicke’s area

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Language area involved with meaning

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Temporal love

Inferior temporal cortex

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Visual identification of objects

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Occipital lobe

Primary visual cortex

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Projection area for visual information

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Occipital lobe

Visual association cortex

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Processes components of visual information

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Corpus callosum

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Communication between the hemispheres

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13
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Ventricles

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Contain cerebrospinal fluid

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Thalamus

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Relays sensory information to cortex

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15
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Hypothalamus

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Coordinates emotional and motivational functions

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16
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Pineal Gland

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Controls daily and seasonal rhythms

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Midbrain - Superior colliculi

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Role in vision - for example eye movements

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Midbrain - Inferior colliculi

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Role in hearing, such as sound location

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Midbrain - Substantial nigra

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Integrates movement

20
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Midbrain - Ventral tegmental area

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Contributes to rewarding effects of food sex and drugs

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Hindbrain - Medulla

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Reflexively controls life processes

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Hindbrain - Pons

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Contains centers related to sleep and arousal

23
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Hindbrain - Reticular formation

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Involved with sleep, arousal, attention and some motor functions

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Hindbrain - Cerebellum

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Controls speed, intensity, and direction of movements

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