Week 2 Brain Function: Objectives 2 & 3 Define thalamocortical system, and relationship between cerebral cortex and thalamus

Question 1

Secondary motor areas

Answer 1

Provide patterns of motor activity

Question 2

Secondary sensory areas

Answer 2

analyze meaning of specific sensory signals

Question 3

Primary motor area

Answer 3

direct connections with muscles

Question 4

Primary sensory area

Answer 4

detect specific sensations

Question 5

Association areas perform what activity

Answer 5

they analyze signals simultaneously from multiple motor and sensory cortices

Question 6

Parieto-occipitotemporal association area

functions

Answer 6

contains wernickes area,, angular gyrus, area for naming objects, area for analyzing spatial coordinates

Question 7

Prefrontal Association Area

functions

Answer 7

receives preanalyzed sensory information necessary for planning effective movement

output passes through basal ganglia

carries out thought prcesses

Question 8

Broca’s area

Answer 8

Provides circuity for word formation

works with Wernicke’s areas

almost always on the left side of the brain

Question 9

Limbic Association Area

Answer 9

1. concerned with behavior
2. emotions
3. motivation

Question 10

Wernicke’s area

Answer 10

language comp

Question 11

Damage to the facial recognition area results in what condition

Answer 11

prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces)

Question 12

Which association areas meet in the posterior part of the superior temporal lobe?

Answer 12

somatic, visual, auditory

Question 13

The area of confluence–where the various assoication areas converge–is developed in the

Answer 13

dominant side of the brain, left side in right handed people,

wernickes

Question 14

Wernicke’s Area: Role in the brain

Answer 14

Language comprehension

Plays the greatest single role of any part of the cerebral cortex for intelligence

Activation of Wernicke’s area may be able to call forth complicated memory patterns involving more than one sensory modality

Question 15

In 95% of population, ___________ __________ and the ______ _________ are the most developed in the left hemisphere

Answer 15

Wernicke’s area

angular gyrus

Question 16

motor areas for controlling _____ are dominant in the _____ ______ in 90% of people

Answer 16

hands, left hemisphere

Question 17

Prefrontal Lobotomy Characteristics

Answer 17

Loss of ability to solve complex problems

Loss of ability to perform sequential tasks to solve complex problems

inappropriate social responses

inability to carry through long trains of thought

loss of purpose while performing usual motor and pattern functions