Cortical Function Flashcards
What is the role of Broca’s area in the non-dominant hemisphere?
Speech synchronisation
What is the effect of frontal eye field stimulation in one hemisphere?
Conjugate eye movements in contralateral direction
What is the role of Wernicke’s area in the dominant hemisphere?
Language comprehension
What info type is carried in the dorsal stream from V1 to the parietal lobe?
Object spatial location
What info type is carried in the ventral stream from V1 to the temporal lobe?
Object identification
A lesion of which brain area and on which side causes prosopagnosia?
Right fusiform face area
But active bilaterally when identifying faces
What is the visual word form area and where is it located?
Identifying words and letters from visual input
Near the left fusiform face area
What is the role of the parahippocampal place area?
Recognises visual information of places
What are the roles of the right parietal lobe?
Body image - recognising body as own
Construction ability
Arithmatic
Stereognosis - perception of form of object using only tactile info
What are the roles of the prefrontal cortex?
Forward planning
Decision-making
Personality
What is the role of the corpus callosum?
Connects 2 hemispheres
What is the role of the anterior commissure?
Connects temporal lobes
