Quiz 4 Part 5 Flashcards
Pre-Frontal Area
- Separates humans from animals
- Most complicated region of the brain
- Cognition ( Learning) Intellect, Personality and love
- Needed for reasoning, judgment, conscience (Emotional part of the brain)
General Interpretation Area
Receives information and stores memories associated with sensation
( Usually in left hemisphere)
Wernickes Area
- Language speech area (Interpretation of language)
- Connected to Broca’s area
- Sound out unfamiliar words
Affective Area ( Right Hemisphere)
- Involves non-verbal emotional path of language
- allows the tone of your voice to evoke emotions
What are Association Areas?
Includes any cortical area that does not have 1° in its name
1° Somatosensory CTX
- Receives information from receptions of skin or muscle
- Awareness of what is happening
( Spatial Discrimination)
Somatosensory Association
Allows you to analyze and interpret different sensory inputs
1° Visual Cortex
- Largest Cortico sensory areas
- Retina → Visual → 1° CTX
Visual Association Area
Interprets past visual experiences and allows recognition of events from the past
1° Auditory Cortex
Hearing and recognition of sounds from the past
1° Olfactory CTX
Controls smells of the past
1° Gustatory CTX
Controls taste of the past
Sensory Areas do not occur where?
In the frontal region
Cerebral Vascular Accident (Stroke)
- Blood circulation and brain is blocked
- Brain Tissue dies not reversible
What are the symptoms of Transient Ischemic Attack (Tia)
Numbness, paralysis, impaired speech (Last 5-50 minutes)