The Brain Flashcards

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The Peripheral Nervous System

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Sensory nerve receptors allow you to interpret the world through:

  • Thermoreceptors
  • Photoreceptors
  • Chemoreceptors
  • Mechanoreceptors
  • Nocireceptors
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Describe the frontal lobe

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Performs higher cognitive functions. Long term memories are stored here. Allows us to be aware of the self. Also contains:

  • Brocas area – for language & speech
  • Motor cortex – motor action
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Describe the Parietal lobe

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Responsible for visual attention & touch perception. It allows us to integrate senses, to conceptualize key features of the world around us. It also contains:

  • Somatosensory cortex – for detecting touch/pain sensations
  • Dorsal stream of the visual system
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Describe the Occipital lobe?

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This area is responsible for vision. And contains the visual cortex. Visual information is received from the retinae and processed here.

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Describe the Cerebellum

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This area is responsible for fine motor control. Balance and fine movements are processed here. Reflex memory is also stored here.

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Describe the Brainstem

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This area is responsible the low level autonomic system: heart rate, swallowing reflex, blood pressure, digestion, temperature, sweating and levels of alertness. It provides the link to the spinal cord.

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Describe the Temporal lobe

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Responsible for auditory perception, speech memory & learning. It also contains:

  • Ventral stream of the visual cortex – What pathway
  • Auditory cortex - for processing sound
  • Wernicke region – for speech
  • Hippocampus – for memory formation
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What are the 6 senses of primates

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hearing, sight, smell, taste, vestibular, somatosensory

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