BRAIN
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| forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain | parts of the brain
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| forebrain | contains the cortex, basal ganglia, limbic system
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| midbrain | important for both sensory and motor functions
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| hindbrain | contains the medulla, cerebellum
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| medulla | near brain stem, controls heartbeat, breathing and swallowing
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| reticular formation | system of nerves running from the hindbrain, and through the midbrain to the cerebral cortex
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| reticular formation | controls arousal and attention
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| reticular formation | beneath the brainstem
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| cerebellum | controls balance and maintains muscle coordination
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| pons | relays messages between the cerebellum and cortex
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| pons | dreaming, arousal, coordination of the left and right side of the body
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| hindrain | medulla, reticular formation, cerebellum and pons
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| forebrain | the limbic system
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| limbic system | located inside the brain
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| limbic system | involved in emotions, motivation, memory and learning
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| thalamus | relays information from sensory organs to cerebral cortex
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| hypothalamus | regulates the amount of fear, thirst, sexual drive and aggression we feel
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| hippocampus | learning, memory and ability to compare sensory information to expectations
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| hippocampus | looks like a seahorse
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| amygdala | influences our motivation, emotional control, fear response and interpretations of non-verbal emotional expressions.
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| cingulate cortex | primarily cortical component of the limbic system
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| cingulate cortex | involved in emotional and cognitive processing
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| cortex | outermost part of the brain
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| cerebral hempispheres | the two hemispheres of the brain
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| occipital lobe | visual information and is connected to the eye muscles
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| temporal lobe | coordinated with time
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| frontal lobe | higher mental functions such as decision making, reasoning
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| frontal lobe | located at the front portion of the head
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| temporal lobe | contains the primary auditory area;
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| temporal lobe | involves learning language
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| parietal lobe | located above the occipital lobe
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| parietal lobe | contains the soma sensory cortex
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| somasensory cortex | sense of touch, sense of direction
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| olfactory bulb | small portion that allows us to smell
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| motor cortex | under frontal lobe
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| motor cortex | contains the voluntary muscles
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| corpus collosum | these are a thick touch of neural fibers that connects the hemispheres
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| association areas of the cortex | made up of neurons in the cortex that are devoted to making connections between the sensory information coming into the brain and stored memories, images and knowledge
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| BROCA'S AREA | located in the left frontal lobe that is devoted to speech production
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| Paul Broca | the Broca's Area is named after him
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| Broca's aphasia | if the broca's area is damaged, it will result to this
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| aphasia | inability to do something
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| WERNICKE'S AREA | located in the left temporal lobe and plays a role in understanding the meaning of words
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| Carl Wernicke | the Wernicke's area is named after him
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| right side of the brain | which hemisphere is controls the left side of the body?
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| Roger Sperry | Split Brain Research
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| Roger Sperry | pioneer in the field of hemisphere specialization
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| left hemisphere | tasks that involve sequence and analysis (language, speech, handwriting, math)
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| right hemisphere | processes information in a more global sense (perception, visualization, spatial perception, recognition of patterns, faces and emotional experiences)
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| left brained | logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective, looks at parts
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| right brained | random, intuitive, holistic, synthesizing, subjective, looks at wholes
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| in curing epilepsy, he cut the corpus collosum to study the function of each side in the brain | how did Sperry discover the 2 hemispheres?
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