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18 Cards in this Set
- Front
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occipital
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vision
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parietal
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somatic sensation, motor control, spatial sense
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temporal
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audition, olfaction, memory
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frontal
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speech and language, "executive" function, behavioral control
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pons
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coordination of movement across left and right side of body
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medulla
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life support, heartbeat, respiration, circulation, swallowing
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cerebellum
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fine motor control, sensory-motor integration
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midbrain nucleus
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orienting reflexes startle, highly developed in birds of prey
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superior colliculus
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visual orientation and spatial localization
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inferior colliculus
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auditory orientation and spatial localization
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substantia nigra
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control of movement; rigidity in parkinson's disease
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reticular activating system
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arousal, sleep/waking cycles
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thalamus
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organization and relay of sensory information to cortex
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hippocampus
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learning and memory formation
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amygdala
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emotional memory, emotional behavior
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hypothalamus
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interface between brain and endocrine system, regulation of basic biological functions: feeding, drinking, temperature, reproduction
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caudate
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motor control, stimulus-response learning
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putamen, globus pallidus
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part of basal ganglia
control of movement, reinforcement learning |
