AP Psychology Brain off terms

forming new neurons

• plasticity 
• neurogenesis

electrical activity

• EEG
• PET
• CT
• MRI

severe corpus callosum

• lateralization
• neurogenesis

Perception, memory, thinking, language, and attitudes all operate on two levels

• parellel processing
• dual processing

switch board operator in the brain for all senses except smell

• amydala
• thalamus
• frontal lobe

takes pictures of soft tissues

• EEG
• PET
• CT
• MRI

brains ability to recover

• plasticity
• neurogenesis

Shows hotspots of the brain consumption of glucose

• EEG
• PET
• MRI
• CT

helps coordinates movement

• pons
• cerebellum

inner ear associated with maintaining equilibrium

• anvil
• semicircular canal
• bipolar cells