Biology D Vocabulary

brain's ability to change by reorganzing after damage or based on experience

• plasticity
• hypothalamus
• amygdala
• somatosensory cortex

isolating brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them

• motor cortex
• split brain
• cerebral cortex
• temporal lobes

controls voluntary movements

• split brain
• corpus callosum
• motor cortex
• neurogenesis

directs maintenance activites, helps govern endocine system, linked to emotion and reward

• plasticity
• association areas
• limbic system
• hypothalamus

fase sensory experience

• hallucination
• parietal lobes
• amygdala
• hypothalamus

formation of new neurons

• temporal lobes
• neurogenesis
• frontal lobes
• occiptal lobes

includes areas that receive information from the visual fields

• hallucination
• amygdala
• occiptal lobes
• hypothalamus

involved in speakng and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements

• corpus callosum
• occipital lobes
• parietal lobes
• frontal lobe

inovlved in higher mental functions - learning, thinking, remembering, and speaking

• association areas
• limbic system
• somatosensory cortex
• cerebral cortex

large band of neural fibers connecting brain hemisphers and carrying messages between them

• neurogenesis
• corpus callosum
• temporal lobes
• motor cortex