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20 Cards in this Set
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What separates the paired cerebral hemispheres?
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longitudinal fissure
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What extends along the midsagittal plane of the brain that separates the L and R hemispheres?
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Longitudinal fissure
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The cerebral hemispheres are separate from one another, except at a few locations where what allows communication between them?
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Tracts of white matter, the largest being the corpus callosum
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What is the corpus collusum?
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The largest of the white matter tracts that connect the L and R cerebral hemispheres. It provides the main method of communication between these hemispheres
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Which hemisphere is frequently more important in controlling speech and understanding the spoken word?
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the left hemisphere
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Each cerebral hemisphere is divided into five anatmically and functionally distinct lobes, what are they?
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Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital lobe, and insula
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One of the lobes of the cerebrum is not superficially visible, which one is it?
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The insula
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What is the frontal lobe primarily concerned with?
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voluntary motor functions of skeletal muscles, concnetration, verbal communications, decision making, planning, and personality
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what lobe is concerned with planning?
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frontal lobe
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Which lobe is concerned with concentration and voluntary motor functions of skeletal muscles?
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frontal lobe
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What happened to Phineas Gage?
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He was working on a railroad construction crew in September of 1848 while using an iron rod to tamp down blasting powder, the gunpowder exploded, and sent a 13 pound rod through phineas's head just below his left eye.
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What important function was impacted by Phineas's accident?
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His personality completely changed
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What was used as a "cure" for people who were mentally ill?
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Frontal lobotomy
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What lies internal to the parietal bone and forms the superoposterior part of each cerbral hemisphere?
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parietal lobe
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What is the parietal lobe involved with?
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General snesory functions, such as evaluating the shape and texture of objects being touched.
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What does the temporal lobe do?
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Hearing, interpreting speech and language, smell
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What is the occipital lobe responsible for?
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Processing incoming visual information and storing visual memories
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What is the the function of the insula?
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memory and interpretation of taste
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What lobe is responsible for the interpretation of taste?
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Insula
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What lobe is responsible for general sensory functions, such as evaluating the shape and texture of objects being touched?
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The parietal lobe
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