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Unit 3B Flashcards

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1
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Destroying certain brain tissues

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Lesion

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Records electrical activity in our brains; waves are measured by electrodes on scalp

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EEG

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Series of x-rays put together

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CT scan

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Visual display of brain activity that detects where radioactive glucose goes

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PET scan

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Produces computer generate brain tissue; magnetic fields and radio waves

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MRI

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Reveals bloodflow through brain; shows brain function

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fMRI

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What makes up the brainstem?

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Pons and medulla

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Controls when we sleep

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Pons

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9
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Responsible for automatic survival functions

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Brainstem

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Controls heartbeat and breathing

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Medulla

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Controls arousal and filters sensory info

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Reticular formation

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Directs messages to sensory receiving areas except smell

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Thalamus

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Controls balance, voluntary movement, judgement, emotions, time

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Cerebellum

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14
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What makes up the limbic system?

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Amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus

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Associated with emotions and drives

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Limbic system

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Linked to emotions (fear and anger)

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Amygdala

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Controls the pituitary gland; linked with emotion and reward

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Hypothalamus

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Body’s ultimate control and information processing center

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Cerebral

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Cells in the nervous system that nourish, protect, support neurons

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Glial cells

20
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Associated with speech, movement, judgemet, personality, planning

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Frontal lobe

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Receives sensory input for touch and body position

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Parietal lobe

22
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Associated with receiving info for vision

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Occipital lobe

23
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Associated with receiving auditory information

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Temporal lobe

24
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Sends voluntary movements

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Motor cortex

25
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Registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

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Sensory cortex

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Where is the motor cortex located?

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Frontal lobe

27
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Where is the sensory cortex located?

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Parietal lobe

28
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Involved with speaking, thinking, remembering, learning; higher knowledge areas

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Association areas

29
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How do areas coordinate to produce speech?

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  1. Registers in visual area
  2. Relayed to angular gyrus to make an auditory code
  3. Received by Wernicke’s area
  4. Sent to Broca’s area
  5. Controls the motor cortex as it creates pronounced words
30
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Impairment of language due to the damage of Broca’s and Wernicke’s

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Aphasia

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Where is the Broca’s area located?

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Frontal lobe

32
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Where is the Wernicke’s area located?

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Temporal lobe

33
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Controls language expression; directs muscle movement in speech

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Broca’s area

34
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Proposed that damage to the left frontal lobe would disrupt speaking

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Paul Broca

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Controls comprehension and expression

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Wernicke’s area

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Claimed that after damage to left of the temporal lobe that people would speak meaningless words

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Karl Wernicke

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Ability to change by recognizing after damage or building new pathways based on experience

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Plasticity

38
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Formation of new neurons

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Neurogenesis

39
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Connects and communicates left and right hemispheres

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Corpus callosum

40
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Isolating the brain hemispheres by cutting fibers connecting them

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Split brain

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Studied of the neural basis of mind with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another.

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Michael Gazzaniga

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Scientist who won a Nobel Prize for work with split brain patients

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Roger Sperry

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Hemisphere involved with language, logic; processing and thinking

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Left

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Hemisphere involved with nonverbal, spatial

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Right

45
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Awareness of ourselves and the environment

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Conscious

46
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Study of brain activity linked with cognition

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Cognitive neuroscience

47
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Information is processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

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Dual processing

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