Cortex

Question 1

What are the three parts of the cortex?

Answer 1

Motor cortex
Sensory cortex
Association cortex

Question 2

Where is the motor cortex located?

Answer 2

In front of the central fissure

Question 3

What is the function of the motor cortex?

Answer 3

Controls the motor functions
Moving around
Includes face muscles (talking eating)

Question 4

What is the cortex made of?

Answer 4

Interneurons

Question 5

Where is the sensory cortex located?

Answer 5

Behind the central fissure

Question 6

What is the function of the sensory cortex?

Answer 6

Deals with all sensory info/ incoming information from your body
(Touch, smell)

Question 7

What are the 4 loves of the association cortex?

Answer 7

Occipital lobe
Temporal lobe
Parietal lobe
Frontal lobe

Question 8

What is the function of the occipital lobe

Answer 8

Visual information

Forms imagery in your brain

Question 9

What is the function of the temporal lobe?

Answer 9

Little bit of imagery
Taste
Smell
Language comprehension
PRIMARY FUNCTION: hearing sound

Question 10

What is the function of the parietal lobe?

Answer 10

Contains lexicon (vocabulary -> spelling, definitions, pronunciation)
Processes touch, pain, temperature

Question 11

What is the function of the frontal lobe?

Answer 11

Personality
Emotion
Abstract thinking
Self-awareness

Question 12

What is the Broca’s area

Answer 12

Speech centre

Question 13

Where is the Broca’s area located?

Answer 13

The frontal lobe

Question 14

Hey!! Lobotomy

Answer 14

Disabling the frontal lobe

• frontal lobotomy
• preorbital lobotomy

Question 15

Where is the cortex located?

Answer 15

In the cerebrum