Mod 12 & 13READING GUIDE

​ (a)   brain networks sustain basic life functions and enable memory, emotions, and basic drives. ​ (b)   neural networks within the ​ (c)   - the two hemispheres contributing ​ (d)   percent of the brain's weight - form specialized work teams that enable our perceiving, thinking and speaking.

• Older
• Newer
• cerebrum
• 85
• 35
• cerebellum

Match the following

• Parietal Lobe

• The intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering the cerebral hemispheres; the body's ultimate control and information-processing center.

• Cerbral Cortex

• A region of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information

• Occipital Love

• A region of the cerebral cortex whose functions include processing information about touch.

• Temporal Lobe

• A region of the cerebral cortex that has specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, speaking, memory, and judgement

• Frontal Lobe

• An area on each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex near the temples that is the primary receiving area for auditory information

The (a)   Cortex is an area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement

Output: ​ (a)   cortex. Right hemisphere section controls the body's ​ (b)   side.

Input: ​ (c)   cortex. Left hemisphere section receives input from the body's ​ (d)   side.

• motor
• left
• somatosensory
• right

Clinical trial of such ​ (a)   neural prosthetics are now under way with people who have severe ​ (b)   or have lost a limb. The first patient, a 25-year-old man with paralysis was able to ​ (c)   control a TV, draw shapes on a computer screen, and play video games --- all thanks to an aspirin-sized chip with 100 ​ (d)   recording activity in his ​ (e)   cortex.

• cognitive
• paralysis
• mentally
• microelectrodes
• motor
• somatosensory

Clinical trial of such ​ (a)   neural prosthetics are now under way with people who have severe ​ (b)   or have lost a limb. The first patient, a 25-year-old man with paralysis was able to ​ (c)   control a TV, draw shapes on a computer screen, and play video games --- all thanks to an aspirin-sized chip with 100 ​ (d)   recording activity in his ​ (e)   cortex.

• cognitive
• paralysis
• mentally
• microelectrodes
• motor
• somatosensory

Match the following

• Association Areas

• areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions; rather, they are involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking

• Somatosensory Cortex

• the ability of other parts of the brain to take over functions of damaged regions. Declines as hemispheres of the cerebral cortex lateralize.

• Motor Cortex

• an area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements

• Brain Plasticity

• the process of developing new neurons

• neurogenesis

• area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

True or False: We only use 10% of our brains.

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Maybe not

The (a)   cortex in the forward part of the frontal lobes enables judgement, planning and processing of new memories.

Match the following

• Paul Broca

• an area of the brain (in the left temporal lobe) involved in language comprehension and expression was named for him because he discovered it

• Phineas Gage

• railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function

• Phineas adn Ferb

• the part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscles involved in speech was named for him, because he first identified it

• Carl Wrnicke

• Brothers who tried to figure out what to do with the 104 days of summer vacation. They also had a pet platypus...named Perry