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What is the function of the Cerebral Cortex?

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Higher mental processes and complex behaviours (Located on the outer layer of the brain)

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What is the function of the Corpus Callosum?

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Connects the left and right hemispheres of the Cerebral Cortex.

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What is the function of the Medulla?

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Controls heartbeat, breathing and other vital bodily functions.

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What is the function of the Pons?

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Controls movement, breathing, sleeping, dreams and waking.

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What is the function of the Cerebellum?

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Controls perception, cognition, balance and fine muscle control.

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What is the function of the Hypothalamus?

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Regulates information and instinct drives.

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What is the function of the thalamus?

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Communicates with the ears, eyes, skin, and other sensory organs.

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What is the function of the Amygdala?

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Responsible for aggression, fear and emotional memory.

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What is the function of the Hippocampus?

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Long term memory and spatial orientation.

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What 4 parts make up the Hindbrain?

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Pons, Cerebellum, Medulla, Brainstem

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What is the function of the Reticular Formation?

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Controls arousal and sleep/wake cycle, and is apart of the midbrain and hindbrain.

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What is the contralateral organisation ?

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Right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vise-versa.

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What is the function of the frontal lobe?

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Behaviour and mental processing

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What 4 lobes make up the cerebral cortex?

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Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital, Lobe.

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What is Hemispheric specialisation?

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Refers to the suggestion that the left and right hemispheres of the brain specialise in particular areas, and one mat have greater control over these areas than the other hemisphere.

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What is the function of the parietal lobe?

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Processes bodily senses.

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What is the function of the occipital lobe?

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Vision.

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What is the function of the temporal lobe?

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Auditory. (Hearing)

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What is the primary responsibility of the forebrain?

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Higher order thinking.

Contains cerebrum, hypothalamus and thalamus

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What is the primary responsibility of the hindbrain?

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All vital bodily functions.

Brainstem, pons, medulla, and cerebellum

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What is the primary responsibility of the midbrain?

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Arousal, sleep and movement.

Reticular Formation

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What are the three main components of the brain?

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The hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain.

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What are the four lobes of the brain?

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Frontal, Parietal, Occipital and Temporal.

FPOT

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What does the Motor Cortex control?

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Controls movement (located in the frontal lobe)

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What does the Somatosensory Cortex control?

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Receives information from sense receptors in the skin. (Located in the parietal lobe)

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What does the visual cortex control?

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Receives visual information from the eyes. (Located in the Occipital Lobe)

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What does the auditory cortex control?

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Receives sound information from the ears. (Located in the Temporal cortex)

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What is the role of the Left Hemisphere?

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Writing, Logic, Language, Science, Maths.

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What is he role of the right hemisphere?

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Art, music, dance, sculpture, perception, fantasy.

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What is he role of the right hemisphere?

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Art, music, dance, sculpture, perception, fantasy.

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What are the two types of plasticity?

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Developmental and Adaptive

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What is developmental plasticity?

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The ability of synapses to modify: occurs in the utero, babies, infants, adolescence.

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What is adaptive plasticity?

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The ability of synapse to modify, occurs later in life, during adulthood.

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What is the definition of Spatial Neglect?

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When the effected person systematically ignores stimuli on one side of their body. Most cases it is damaged to the rear right of the parietal lobe (left neglect)

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