Forebrain

Question 1

Cerebrum

Answer 1

• largest part of brain
• dvided into right and left hemispheres

Question 2

Corpus Callosum

Answer 2

• dense, compacted axons that bind to hemispheres together
• allows cerebral lateraziation

Question 3

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 3

• thin and wrinkly outside of brain
• fissures(wrinkles) indicate higher intelligence
• contains all the lobes

Question 4

Frontal Lobe

Answer 4

-largest surface of all lobes

Question 5

Functions of Frontal Lobe

Answer 5

• speech production
• mood regulated emotion
• personality
• voluntary muscle control
  advanced cognition - problem solving, hypotheticals

Question 6

Motor Cortex

Answer 6

• part of frontal lobe
• sends bioelctric impulses to muscles for voluntary movement
• connected to cerebellum by basal ganglia

Question 7

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Answer 7

• part of frontal lobe
• judjment and descion making

Question 8

Broca’s area

Answer 8

• found in left half of temporal lobe
• linked to speech production and vocal articulation

Question 9

Temporal Lobe

Answer 9

• auditory cortex
• long term storage of memory

Question 10

Wernickes Area

Answer 10

• part of temporal lobe
• left temporal lobe
• language comprehension

Question 11

Transverse Temporal Gyrus(Heschls Gyrus)

Answer 11

• responsible for vocal signature idnetification
• temporal lobe

Question 12

A4 Medial Gericulate Nucleus

Answer 12

• music processor - pitch, haromy
• temporal lobe

Question 13

Lateral Superior Olive

Answer 13

• responsible for source location of sound
• temporal lobe

Question 14

Occipital Lobe

Answer 14

visual cortex
- left eye is processed in right side vise versa

Question 15

V1 Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

Answer 15

• feature detector within the visual cortex
• perception and recognition of color
• Occiptal lobe

Question 16

Fusiform Gyrus

Answer 16

• responsible for facial recognition
• occipital lobe

Question 17

Inferiror gyrus

Answer 17

• object recognition
• occipital lobe

Question 18

Parietal Lobe

Answer 18

touch, taste, smell

Question 19

Somatosensory cortex

Answer 19

• processes body sensations - pressure, temerature, pain
• parietal lobes

Question 20

Insular Cortex

Answer 20

• essential hand-eye coordiastion
• parietal lobe
• alows you to be self-aware
• anything smell related goes directly here without going through thalamus