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Parts Of The Brain And The Functions Flashcards

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Functions of the pons

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Sleep and arousal

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What is the hindbrain

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The part of the brain that consists of pons cerebellum and medulla oblongata

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Medulla oblongata function

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Breathing and reflexes

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Cerebellum

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Motor coordination

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Cerebral cortex function

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Think learn consciousness

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Amygdala

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Fear and discrimination of objects

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Hippocampus

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Involved in memory

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Hypothalamus (instinct)

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Eating drinking sex (lust and gluttonous part) (instinct)

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Pituitary gland

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Regulates glands and controls bodily growth and horomones

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Thalamus

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Relays information to the brain

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Limbic system

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Houses amygdala and hippocampus

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Basal ganglia

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Works with cerebral cortex and cerebellum to control and coordinate movements

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list parts of the Forebrain

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Include cerebral cortex basal ganglia and limbic system

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Occipital

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Allows us to view the world

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Temporal

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Hearing, language processing, and memory

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Frontal

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Personality thinking,reasoning and self control

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(P)arietal

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Attention motor control and registering spatial location

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Broca’s area

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Speech production

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Wernicke area

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language comprehension

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Somatosensory cortex

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Processes information from bodily functions

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Motor cortex

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Processes information from voluntary movements

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Left hemisphere

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Deals with most of the language processing

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Right hemisphere

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Deals with non verbal information like emotions spatial perception and visual recognition

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Substantia nigra

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Controls unconscious movements

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Reticular formation

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Consciousness and arousal

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Neural network

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Interconnected pathways of nerve cells that integrate information

Make up most of the brain

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Brain lesioning

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Section of brain is extracted to find what that part of the brain does

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Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation

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Lets us find the function of a part of the brain without damaging the tissue

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Forebrain

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Cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and limbic system

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Neocortex

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Outermost part of cerebral cortex

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Association cortex

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Part that is apart of the high intellectual functions

(Executive)

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Corpus callosum

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Bundle of AXONS that relay messages and connect the two hemispheres

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