Neurobiology and Immunology: The Cerebral Cortex Flashcards
What is the Cerebral Cortex and what does it do?
It is the centre of conscious thought.
It also recalls memories and alters behaviour in the light of experience
There is localisation of brain functions in the Cerebral Cortex. What does it contain?
Sensory Areas, Motor Areas and Association Areas
Association areas are involved in what?
Language processing, personality, imagination and intelligence
Information from one side of the body is processed where?
In the opposite side of the cerebrum
The left cerebral hemisphere deals with what?
Information from the right visual field and controls the right side of the body.
The right cerebral hemisphere deals with what?
Information from the left visual field and controls the left side of the body.
Transfer of information between the cerebral hemispheres occurs through what?
The corpus callosum
