Cerebral cortex (brain and functions but outside part)

Why is brain split in 2 Hemispheres?

Each side has distinct functions they specialize in(divided again into lobes and areas.) ALSO bc of contralateral organization.

Contralateral organization

Each side of brain controls bodily functions for other side of body. See something with right eye but processed in left brain, etc.

Right Hemisphere

Spatial abilities/awareness, visualizing objects, navigating, facial recognition, facial expressions(and recognizing them), process music and other creative expression

Left Hemisphere

Language and communication, speech and writing, comprehension, analytical thinking, precise and linear thought processes

4 lobes

Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital

2 areas you NEED to know(and where)

Broca's Area(part of frontal lobe) Wernicke's Area(part of temporal lobe)

3 parts of frontal lobe

Prefrontal cortex, motor cortex, broca's area

Frontal lobe general functions

Higher order thinking, high cognitive/executive functions, movement, personality, emotions

Prefrontal cortex

Deals with the smarty pants stuff of frontal lobe: higher thinking, executive functioning, judgements, desicions, and regulating emotions/impulses

Motor cortex

Organized somatically, controls types of skeletal/muscle movement, while cerebellum also does that, this part focuses more on the planning, commanding, and initiating of movements rather than precise movements.

Broca's area

ONLY IN LEFT PART of frontal lobe, small, deals with the motor part of speaking, generaly the ability to speak.

Somatically

In relation to body, like in motor cortex, each part of it related to a specific body part

Parietal Lobe

Processes sensory info(pain, touch, pressure, etc.), spatial awareness

The 1 part of parietal lobe you NEED to know

Somatosensory cortex

Somatosensory cortex

Relieve and interpret sensations from diff body parts, like heat and pressure, organized somatically

Occipital lobe

Mainly processes visual info = sight

(No sub-part u NEED to know)

Temporal lobe

Mainly processes auditory info, but also memory, facial recognition, and speech (BECUASE IT HOUSES HIPPOCAMPUS)

The 1 part of temporal lobe you NEED to know

Wernicke's area

Wernicke's area

ONLY IN LEFT PART OF temporal lobe, language comprehension. Not about ability to speak but ability to understand one’s own speech and other’s speech.

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