Reticular activating system (________)- Arouses cortex and screens incoming information.
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Pons
________- involved in sleeping, waking, and dreaming (involved in facial expressions)
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Frontal lobe
________ is the higher level thinking last lobe to fully develop, motor skills, decision making.
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Temporal lobe primary function
________ is speech comprehension and speech creation.
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Pons
involved in sleeping, waking, and dreaming (involved in facial expressions)
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Reticular activating system (RAS)
Arouses cortex and screens incoming information
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Glial cells
support brain cells
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Auditory cortex
part of temporal lobe
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Pons
involved in sleeping, waking, and dreaming (involved in facial expressions)
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Medulla
Responsible for certain automatic functions such as breathing and heart rate
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Reticular Activating System (RAS)
Arouses cortex and screens incoming information
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Pons, Medulla, RAS
We have no control/conscious over these
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Cerebellum
Means little brain
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Cerebellum
Regulated movement and balance
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Cerebellum
Involved in remembering simple skills and acquired reflexes
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Cerebellum
Plays a part in human development
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Cerebellum
Analyzing sensory information
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Cerebellum
Solving problems
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Cerebellum
Understanding words
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Cerebral Cortex
higher thinking
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Cerebral Cortex
Made up of dense pack neurons we call "gray matter"
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Glial cells
support brain cells
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fissures
wrinkles in the cerebral cortex
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Frontal lobe
last lobe to fully develop, motor skills, decision making
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Parietal lobe
primarily sensory
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Occipital lobe
the vision back of the brain
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Temporal lobe
primary function is speech comprehension and speech creation
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Auditory cortex
part of the temporal lobe that processes auditory information
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Cerebrum
Largest brain structure
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Cerebrum
In charge of most sensory, motor, and cognitive processes
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Cerebrum
Surrounded by cerebral cortex
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corpus callosum
Two cerebral hemispheres are connected by the
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Thalamus
Switchboard operator of the brain
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Thalamus
Receives sensory signals from the spinal cord and sends them to the other parts of the forebrain
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Thalamus
Every sense except smell
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Hypothalamus
Perhaps the most important structure in the brain
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Hypothalamus
Controls and regulates Body temperature, Sexual arousal, Hunger, Thirst, Endocrine System, The autonomic nervous system
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Hypothalamus
It is slow but powerful
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Amygdala
Responsible for Arousal, Regulation of emotion, Initial emotional response to sensory information, Plays important role in Mediating anxiety and depression, Emotional memory, Involved in volatile emotions like anger
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Hippocampus
Involved in the processing and storage of memories
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Hippocampus
Responsible for storage of new information n memory
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Phineas Gage Story
railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
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Corpus Callosum
bundle of nerves that allow hemispheres to communicate
Studied by 2 people
