glossary

Question 1

forebrain

Answer 1

telencephalon and diencephalon

Question 2

central sulcus

Answer 2

separates parietal lobe from frontal lobe and primary motor cortex from primary somatosensory cortex

Question 3

parietal lobe

Answer 3

processing sensory information

Question 4

occipital lobe

Answer 4

visual processing centre

Question 5

temporal lobe

Answer 5

primary auditory perception- language emotion, comprehension

Question 6

lateral sulcus

Answer 6

prominent feature of the brain, deep groove

Question 7

frontal lobe

Answer 7

cognitive skills, such as emotion, problem solving, memory, language, judgment and sexual behaviour

Question 8

CNS

Answer 8

central nervous system

Question 9

PNS

Answer 9

autonomic and somatic

Question 10

autonomic NS

Answer 10

bodily functions

Question 11

somatic NS

Answer 11

reflex and voluntary movement

Question 12

addititive synthesis

Answer 12

add pure tones to create complex

Question 13

fourier analysis

Answer 13

break complex waveforms into pure tone components

Question 14

myopia

Answer 14

lens of eye too strong for length of eyeball

Question 15

hyperopia

Answer 15

lens of eye too weak for length of eyeball

Question 16

trichromacy

Answer 16

can see all coours

Question 17

dichromacy

Answer 17

colour deficits

Question 18

tritanopic

Answer 18

lost s opsin

Question 19

deuteranopic

Answer 19

lost m opsin

Question 20

protanopic

Answer 20

lost l opsin

Question 21

dualism

Answer 21

mind and brain fundamentally different

Question 22

monoism

Answer 22

operations of brain lead to mental events

Question 23

sub-cortical nuclei

Answer 23

involved in movement control

Question 24

olfactory celft

Answer 24

relays sensory info to brain

Question 25

olfactory epithelium

Answer 25

tissue that lines outer surface of organs and blood vessels

Question 26

striatum

Answer 26

caudate nucleus and putamen

Question 27

globus pallidus

Answer 27

voluntary movement

Question 28

limbic system

Answer 28

cingulate cortex, amygdala and hippocamous

Question 29

cingulate cortex

Answer 29

error signals /attention/emotion

Question 30

amygdala

Answer 30

emotion- fear

Question 31

the cochlea

Answer 31

receives sound as vibrations

Question 32

vestibular canal

Answer 32

spatial orientation, awarenss and balance

Question 33

corti

Answer 33

hair cells here trnsduce mechanical sound vibration

Question 34

stereocilia

Answer 34

convert vibrations into nerve impulses

Question 35

tonotopy

Answer 35

arangement of where sounds of different frequencies are processed in the brain

Question 36

basiliar membrane

Answer 36

separates two liquid filled tubes that run along the coil of cochlea

Question 37

helicotrema

Answer 37

hair cells here detect low frequencies

Question 38

utricle

Answer 38

balancing system using hairs to detect movement and orientation

Question 39

pupil

Answer 39

control amount of entering light

Question 40

iris

Answer 40

control amount of entering light

Question 41

sclera

Answer 41

sheath covering optic nerve behind

Question 42

cornea

Answer 42

eyes outermost lens

Question 43

fovea

Answer 43

let light fall directly on cones to give sharpest image

Question 44

retina

Answer 44

converts light into neural signals

Question 45

vitreous

Answer 45

transparent gelatinous tissue filling eyeball

Question 46

ciliary body

Answer 46

ciliary muscle which controls shape of lens

Question 47

emmetropia

Answer 47

no visual defects in sight

Question 48

2nd order

Answer 48

the new CS tells u about old Cs

Question 49

blocking conditioning

Answer 49

new CS tells u nothing new

Question 50

presbyopia

Answer 50

long sightedness

Question 51

scotopic vision

Answer 51

processing disorder

Question 52

photopic vision

Answer 52

vision under well lit conditions

Question 53

ganglion cells

Answer 53

neuron which recieves info from photoreceptors; bipolar and retina amacrie

Question 54

anterograde amnesia

Answer 54

cannot later remember events that occur after brain damage

Question 55

korsakoffs syndrome

Answer 55

damage to dorsomedial thalamic nucelus

Question 56

LGN

Answer 56

lateral geniculate nucleus -

Question 57

excitatory centre

Answer 57

light turns on

Question 58

inhibitory surround

Answer 58

light turns off cell

Question 59

object agnosia

Answer 59

failure to recognise objects

Question 60

prosopagnosia

Answer 60

face agnosia

Question 61

dura mater

Answer 61

thick membrane which surrounds brain and spinal chord

Question 62

pia mater

Answer 62

delicate innermost layer of membranes surrouding brain and spinal chord

Question 63

telencephalon

Answer 63

the cerebral cortex

Question 64

basal ganglia

Answer 64

motor movements , procedural learning habit learning eye movement etc