The Brain 2 Flashcards
What divides the brain up functionally into motor and sensory areas?
The Central Sulcus
Primary motor cortex
where all voluntary skeletal muscle commans come from
Premotor cortex
Where learnt movements are stored and cordinated
Prefrontal cortex
-conscious intellect
-coordnates info from all area
-filters emotions like frusteration, tension, and anxiety
-predicts future consequences of events
Brocas area
-ONLY In the LEFT hemisphere
-location of speech center and breathing
two types of speech aphasia talked about in class:
1.Brochas
2.Warnickes
What is Brochas Aphasia?
When speech production is difficult but comprehendable by another person
what is warnickes aphasia?
When speech production is easy but no one can comprehend what they are trying to express
Primary somatic sensory cortex
-recieves sensory info from touch, pressure, and pain
-temp receptors
-in parietal lobe
Where is the visual association area?
the occipital lobe
Primary visual cortex
-recieves visual info
-occipital lobe
Gustatory cortex
-recieves taste senstaions
-parietal lobe
Primary auditory cortex
-receives hearing sensations
-temporal lobe
Where is the auditiory assocation area?
temporal and parietal lobes
olafactory cortex
-recieves sense of smell
-temporal lobe
what connects each area on a single hempispheric cortex?
White matter beneath cerebral cortex
What two things connect the right and left hemisphers and help them to communicate?
The Corpus callosum and anterior commissure
Left hemisphere
-speech center
-language and math
-writing
Right hemisphere
-anaylsis by touch
-spatial anaylsis
-creative
Left handed people are usually _____
right handed people are usually_____
Left handed=right brained
right handed=left brained
