Unit 3.4 - Cerebral Cortex (Reading Sec. 3)

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Frontal Lobes (front)

  • Speaking

  • motor mvmts

  • judgement

  • decision making

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Parietal Lobes (back)

receives & processes sensory input for touch & body portion

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Temporal Lobe

  • receives audio info

  • primarily from opposite ear

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Occipital Lobe

  • process visual info

  • primarily from opposite visual field

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Motor Cortex (Output)

  • right hemisphere

  • controls: bodys left side & voluntary mvmts

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Somatosensory Cortex (Input)

  • left hemisphere

  • receives input from body’s right side

  • registers info from skin senses & body mvmt

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Auditory cortex

  • receives info from ear

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Visual Cortex

receives info from eyes

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Association Areas

most of brain cortex, learning, remembering thinking

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Broca’s Area

  • Left frontal lobe

    • expressive language

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Wernicke’s Area

  • left temporal lobe

  • receives/incoming language

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Plasticity

the brain rebuilding/changing itself after damage or building new pathways like memorizing based on new experience

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Neurogenesis

producing new neurons