Chapter 12 key brain areas

motor areas

primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, brocas area

primary motor cortex

in front of central sulcus and does voluntary actions

premotor cortex

in front of primary motor cortex, thinking about something before you do it

brocas area

left cerebral hemisphere/ temporal lobe, motor speech are that helps form words

damage to brocas area

brocas aphasia

primary somatosensory cortex

receives info and determines where in the body

somatosensory association area

determines what your feeling

primary visual cortex

receives visual info from retina

visual association area

what your seeing, determining past visual experiences

primary auditory cortex

receives energy from ears

auditory association area

how loud or quiet, recognize sounds

olfactory cortex

smell

gustatory cortex

taste

visceral sensory area

in between what your touching and what it is

wernickes area

associated with hearing

damage to wernickes area

wernickes aphasia

diencephalon

made of thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus

thalamus

mediates sensation, motor activity, arousal, learning, and memory

hypothalamus

Thermoregulation, Nutrition and hydration

epithalamus

pineal glands converts seratonin into melatonin

hippocampus

does NOT store memories, encodes memories for storage to occur somewhere else in the brain

amygdala

imputs emotional context to memory content formation