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Telencephalon I: Cortex Flashcards

1
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What structure entails high-level processes?

A

cortex

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Give examples of high-level processes:

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  • Sensory integration
  • Motor control
  • Learning
  • Memory formation, storage, and retrieval
  • Emotional expression
  • Personality
  • Decision making
  • Language
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What structure is the outermost and largest region of the brain?

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cerebrum

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4
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The cerebrum is formed by three groups of structures:

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  1. cortex
  2. basal ganglia/nuclei
  3. limbic system
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What sections comprise the forebrain?

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  1. telencephalon
  2. diencephalon
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What section is in the midbrain?

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  1. mesencephalon
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What sections comprise the hindbrain?

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  1. metencephalon
  2. myelencephalon
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What is highly folded, outer layer of gray and white matter of the cerebrum?

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cerebral cortex

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What plays a key role in attention, perception, awareness, thought, long-term memory, cognition, language, emotion control, and consciousness?

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cerebral cortex

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10
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The cortex is divided into how many lobes?

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5

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What are the lobes of the cortex called?

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  1. frontal
  2. parietal
  3. occipital
  4. temporal
  5. insular
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What cortex is in the occipital lobe?

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visual
(primary visual cortex and visual association area)

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What cortex is in the parietal lobe?

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sensory cortex
(somatic sensory association area)

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What structure divides the parietal and frontal lobe?

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central sulcus

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What cortices are in the frontal lobe?

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  1. motor cortex
    (somatic motor association area)
  2. gustatory
  3. olfactory
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16
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What cortex is in the temporal lobe?

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auditory cortex
(primary auditory cortex and auditory association area)

17
Q

The cortex is divided into three functional areas:

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  1. motor cortex
  2. sensory cortex
  3. association cortex
18
Q

TRUE or FALSE: The cortex is somatotopically organized.

A

TRUE

19
Q

The motor region is a cortical region that control ___________ movements. It is divided into two parts:

A

voluntary

  1. premotor motor cortex
  2. primary motor cortex
20
Q

What structure receives inputs from the basal ganglia and projects directly to the primary motor cortex to produce elaborate movements.

A

premotor cortex

21
Q

The premotor cortex receives inputs from the ______________________.

A

basal ganglia

22
Q

What executes voluntary movements?

A

primary motor cortex

23
Q

The primary motor cortex receives inputs from the ____________________, _______________________ and ___________________.

A

primary somatosensory cortex, the thalamus, and premotor areas

24
Q

The primary motor cortex projects to the _______________.

A

Thalamus

25
Q

Different regions of the cortex process information from four senses, via the ______________ .

A

thalamus

26
Q

What cortex involves sensory input from the skin and joints?

A

Somatosensory cortex

27
Q

What cortex involves auditive and vestibular information from CN VIII?

A

Auditory and vestibular cortex

28
Q

What cortex involves taste from CN VII, IX, X?

A

Gustatory cortex

29
Q

What cortex involves visual input from CN II?

A

visual cortex

30
Q

________________ information goes directly from CN I to the __________ cortex, bypassing the thalamus.

A

Olfactory

31
Q

What makes associations between different types of sensory information?

A

association cortex

32
Q

The ____________________ ________________ cortex involves attention, thinking, planning, problem-solving, emotional control, personality.

A

Anterior association cortex

33
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The _______________________ __________ cortex involves integrated perception, processing of visual language, and naming objects.

A

Posterior association cortex

34
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The __________________ _______________ cortex associates sensory input with limbic areas, memory and, cognition, language processing.

A

Limbic association cortex

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