Neuroscience Part 6

Question 1

Located in the front part of the parietal lobes

Answer 1

Somatosensory Cortex

Question 2

Registers and processes body sensations

Answer 2

Somatosensory Cortex

Question 3

Located throughout the corext, involved higher level mental functions such as learning, remembering, and abstract thinking

Answer 3

Association Areas

Question 4

Involved in associating information from different parts of the brain

Answer 4

Association Areas

Question 5

What Lobe is located at the back and base of the brain

Answer 5

Occipital Lobes

Question 6

Contains the visual cortex which receives information from the eyes

Answer 6

Occipital Lobes

Question 7

Located at the sides (temples) of the brain

Answer 7

Temporal Lobes

Question 8

Contain auditory areas which receive information from the ears

Answer 8

Temporal Lobes

Question 9

Located in the left frontal lobe

Answer 9

Broca’s Area

Question 10

Involved in controlling the moto ability to produce speech

Answer 10

Broca’s Area

Question 11

Impairment of language because of damage of any several cortical areas including Brocas/Wernike’s Area

Answer 11

Aphasia

Question 12

Condition where familiar objects are unrecognizable

Answer 12

Agnosia

Question 13

Also called face blindness

Answer 13

Prosopagnosia

Question 14

Can see various parts of the face but can’t identify the person who’s face it is

Answer 14

Prosopagnosia

Question 15

Brain’s capacity for modification

Answer 15

Plasticity

Question 16

Large band of neural fibers that links to the right and left cerebral hemisphere without band of fibers

Answer 16

Corpus Callosum

Question 17

WIthout this, the 2 hemisphere’s can’t interact

Answer 17

Corpus Callosum

Question 18

Condition which the major connections between the 2 cerebral hemispheres (corpus callosum) are severed

Answer 18

Results in Split Brain

Question 19

Body’s slower chemical communication system

Answer 19

Endocrine System

Question 20

Consist of glands that secrete hormones into the blood-stream

Answer 20

Endocrine System

Question 21

Chemical messaangers, mostly manufactured by the endocrine system

Answer 21

Hormones

Question 22

Produce Epinephrine/Norepinephrine hormones that prepare the body to deal with emergency stress

Answer 22

Adrenal Glands

Question 23

Master gland that control growth and other endocrine glands

Answer 23

Pituitary Gland

Question 24

Hypothalamus controls this glane

Answer 24

Pituitary Gland

Question 25

Secretes thyroxine which affects body metabolism

Answer 25

Thyroid Gland

Question 26

Releases melatonin which regulates sleep and body rhythms

Answer 26

Pineal Gland

Question 27

Invented phrenology

Answer 27

Franz Gall

Question 28

What two people places electrode in the hypothalamus discovering that it is the pleasure/reward center

Answer 28

James Old
Peter Milner

Question 29

Railroad worker who had damaged to the frontal lobe thus altered his personality from softspoken to dishonest

Answer 29

Phineas Gage

Question 30

What two people divided brains of cats & monkeys to test if split brain patients work, studied split brain patients

Answer 30

Michael Gazzaniga
Roger Sperry