Cognitive Neuroscience

Scans measure

________ increases in oxygen consumption in active brain areas during particular kinds of information processing.

PREFONTAL CORTEX

The ________ is involved in COPLEX MOTOR CONTROL and tasks that require integration of information over time.

muscle tone

Controls bodily coordination, balance, and ________, as well as some aspects of memory involving procedure- related movements.

Relays

________ incoming sensory information through groups of neurons that project to the appropriate region in the cortex.

branchlike

Are the ________ structures that receive information from other neurons, and the soma integrated the information.

nervous system

Is the field of study linking the brain and other aspects of the ________ to cognitive processing and, ultimately, to behavior.

electrical frequencies

Are recording of the ________ and intensities of the living brain.

Thalamus

________ is divided into a number of nuclei (groups of neurons of similar function) which receives information from specific senses.

thin tube

Is a long, ________ that extends (and sometimes splits) from the soma and responds to the information through transmission of an electrochemical signal, which travels to the terminus, where the signal can be transmitted to other neurons.

Signal transmission

________ between neurons occurs when the terminal buttons release one or more neurotransmitters at the synapse.

Strokes

________ occur when the flow of the blood to the brain undergoes a sudden disruption.

small knobs

Are ________ found at the ends of the branches of an axon that do not directly touch the dendrites of the next neuron, rather, there is a very small gap, the synapse (a juncture between the terminal buttons of one or more neurons and the dendrites)

dense aggregate of neural fibers

Is a(n) ________ connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.

pituitary glands

It is involved in the stimulation of the ________, through which a range of hormones are produced and released.

Information transmission

________ is from one side to another (contra: Opposite,) (lateral: Side) Ipsilateral.