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16 Cards in this Set
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Hindbrain: medulla |
heart rate; respiration |
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Hindbrain: pons |
sleep stages, aurosal |
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Hindbrain: cerebellum |
motor coordination, ballistic movement |
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Forebrain: thalamus |
relay centre for incoming sensory info (memories) , regulates arousal |
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Forebrain: basal ganglia |
control slower, deliberate actions |
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Forebrain: hypothalamus |
mediator between brain and endocrine system, aid bodily function |
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Hippocampus |
forming and retrieving memories |
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Amygdala |
emotion and aggression (helps with long-term memory) |
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Nucleus accumbens |
involved with reinforcement, pleasure, and addiction |
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Cerebral cortex: frontal lobe |
motor cortex, higher level cognitive function (planning, controling, coordinating...) |
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Cerebral cortex: parietal lobe |
somatosensory cortex (temp, pressure), physical sense of "self" |
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Cerebral cortex: temporal lobe |
auditory cortex, auditory processing, language, memory formation |
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Cerebral cortex: occipital lobe |
visual cortex, colour, perception |
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What is the function of the left hemisphere of the brain? |
speech, math and logic |
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what is the function of the right hemisphere of the brain? |
recognizing faces, handling emotions, and spatial tasks (space and pattern) |
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Does experience change the cortex of an individual? |
Yes, neural plasticity |
