The Limbic System

Question 1

The limbic System

Answer 1

Neural circuits that are crucial to learning, memory and emotional control

Question 2

Hippocampus

Answer 2

Forming new memories of events and information

Question 3

Thalamus

Answer 3

Processes and distributes all sensory and motor information to and from the cerebral cortex (except smell)

Regulates awareness and the emotional aspects of sensation

Question 4

Hypothalamus

Answer 4

• regulates to autonomic nervous systems, sleep cycles and influence pituitary gland secretions
• survival behaviors (eating, fear, aggression)

Question 5

Amygdala

Answer 5

Involved in emotional responses, learning and forming memories

Question 6

Gender differences in 🧠 structure

Answer 6

• men have larger skulls/larger 🧠
• females have higher concentration of gray to white matter
• gray/white matters is equally distributed in female 🧠
• males have higher concentration of gray matter in left hemisphere
• males 🧠 are asymmetrical and function more laterally
• women use both hemispheres to process language/males use only left
  Males rely on right hemisphere for verbal and spatial tasks

Question 7

What parts of the 🧠 are responsible for language?

Answer 7

Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas; both located in the left hemisphere

Question 8

Lateralization of Function

Answer 8

Implies that one hemisphere of the brain exerts more control over a particular psychological function than the other