Chapter 6 FINAL REVIEW Flashcards
The gap that exists between individual nerve cells. The space between the axon terminal and the dendrite. I drew it on the board. I made little shapes. Neurotransmitters cross it. It has a cleft.
the synapse
The site that the spinal cord enter the brain. This area controls the heart rate, breathing, relays motor messages, etc.
Cerebellum
What lobe of the brain contains association areas that house memories of visual stimuli?
Occipital lobe
The part of a neuron that process afferent and efferent neural messages is know as the
nucleus
A white fatty substance that insulates and protects the axon of some neurons
myelin
Act as the garbage men of the brain
glials
the center in the answer #9 that is most responsibe for decoding audible stimuli
Primary auditory cortex
The hemisphere that is more likely to control logic and mathematics
Left hemisphere
The substantia nigra is
a darkened ara of the left hemisphere that is responsible for unconscious movement
The region of the frontal lobe that controls the muscles relating to speech production is the
Broca’s area
Damage to the frontal lobe may produce
an inability to plan for the future and an inabiliity to produce the need for speech
Regaining the ability to walk after a person suffers a brain injury after a car accident is an example of
plasticity
the somatosensory cortex in located in the
parietal lobe
the thick band of fibers that allow the two cerebral hemispheres to communicate and share messages is known as the
corpus callosum
the outer layer of the cerebrum that is only 1/4 in thick, appears to be grey, and is arranged in convolutions is the
cerebral cortex
Aphasia is
loss of an ability to use language
T/F
The specialization of each hemisphere of the brain is known as lateralization
True
T/F
White matter possesses a proportional relationship with intelligence. The more white matter the brain contains, the greater the intellectual capability of a person
False
T/F
If a person were to undergo a split brain operation, it would be very obvious due to their diminished ability to speak clearly
False
T/F
The right brain is most likely to contain the region of the brain that deals with mathmatics
False
T/F
The left hemisphere helps an individual to use analytical thought
True
T/F
Motor neurons send messages to the brain
false
T/F
Damee to the occipital lobe would most likely result in hearing loss
false
T/F
stimuli touched by our right hand is processed in the left hemisphere
True
