the brain

What are the names of the two brain hemispheres?

• Interior and exterior

• Left and right

• Higher and lower

• Frontal and rear

In humans, what does the cerebral cortex control?

• All physiological functions

• Advanced functions like thinking

• Basic functions like heart rate

• All psychological functions

For which function is Wernicke's area responsible?

• Controls language understanding

• Controls language production

• Controls emotional understanding

• Controls environmental understanding

According to brain scan studies which brain region is most active when we are listening?

• The right hemisphere

• The left hemisphere

• Broca's area

• Wernicke's area

Relays sensory impulses to cerebral cortex and involved in memory.

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

• Limbic system

• Midbrain

Diencephalon includes the

• Pons, midbrain, Medulla Oblongata, reticular formation

• Thalamus, Hypothalamus, & Limbic system

• cerebellum

• Cerebral cortex and basal nuclei

Chief integration center of the autonomic nervous system

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

• Limbic system

• Midbrain

Regulates hormonal output of the pituitary gland.

• Medulla Oblongata

• Pons

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The brain stem includes (check all that apply)

• Midbrain and the pons

• Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Limbic system

• Medulla Oblongata and the reticular formation

• Cerebellum and the cerebral hemispheres

• Cortex and Basal nuclei

Responsible for proper balance and posture.

• Cerebellum

• Midbrain

• Medulla Oblongata

• Reticuluar formation