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Chapter 1: Overview of CNS - Major Sulci & Gyri

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a sulcus?

a)

a fissure or shallow groove that separates a lobe

b)

a group of nerve fibers

c)

a ridge/raised portion of the brain surface

d)

a type of nerve cell

2.

What is located below the Middle Frontal Gyrus?

(a)  

3.

What is a gyrus?

a)

a developing nerve cell

b)

a fissure or shallow groove that separates a lobe

c)

a type of glial cell

d)

a ridge/raised portion of the brain surface

4.

What is located between the Superior & Inferior Frontal Gyri?

(a)  

5.

Name this structure

a)

Inferior Frontal Sulcus

b)

Lateral Cerebral Sulcus

c)

Superior Temporal Sulcus

d)

Middle Temporal Sulcus

6.

Where is the Superior Frontal Sulcus located?

(a)  

7.

What structures does the Interparietal Sulcus separate?

a)

superior parietal lobule

b)

supramarginal gyrus

c)

postcentral gyrus

d)

inferior parietal lobule

8.

What gyrus functions in phonological development (reading & rhyming) and plays a significant role in verbal working memory?

a)

Postcentral Gyrus

b)

Supramarginal Gyrus

c)

Middle Temporal Gyrus

d)

Angular Gyrus

9.

What separates the Middle & Inferior Temporal Gyri?

a)

Superior Temporal Sulcus

b)

Central Sulcus

c)

Inferior Temporal Sulcus

d)

Middle Temporal Sulcus

10.

What is this structure?

a)

Frontal Eye Fields

b)

Middle Frontal Gyrus

c)

Superior Frontal Gyrus

d)

Inferior Frontal Gyrus

11.

What is this structure?

(a)  

12.

What are the functions of the Orbital Gyri?

a)

role in olfaction perception

b)

intellectual expression

c)

pain sensation

d)

emotional expression

13.

What cortexes does the Precentral Sulcus separate?

a)

motor cortex

b)

premotor cortex

c)

somatosensory cortex

d)

occipital cortex

14.

The Precentral Gyrus contains:

a)

Primary Motor Cortex

b)

Somatosensory Cortex

c)

Orbitofrontal Cortex

d)

Premotor Cortex

15.

What part of the brain receives visual, auditory, and somatosensory input from various areas and plays a role in attention, self-processing, semantic information processing, emotional regulation, and mentalizing?

a)

Angular Gyrus

b)

Orbital Gyrus

c)

Middle Temporal Sulcus

d)

Precentral Gyrus

16.

What receives somatosensory information from the entire body?

a)

Precentral Gyrus

b)

Supramarginal Gyrus

c)

Postcentral Gyrus

d)

Superior Temporal Gyrus

17.

What gyrus does the auditory cortex reside in?

(a)  

18.

What are the functions of the Inferior Parietal Lobule?

a)

multimodal sensory integration

b)

spatial attention

c)

social cognition

d)

oculomotor control

19.

What separates the Middle Frontal Gyrus from the Inferior Frontal Gyrus?

a)

Precentral Sulcus

b)

Inferior Frontal Sulcus

c)

Lateral Cerebral Sulcus

d)

Superior Frontal Sulcus

20.

What is the Inferior Temporal Gyrus involved in?

a)

language & semantic memory processing

b)

phonological processing

c)

multimodal sensory integration

d)

visual perception & object recognition

21.

What area is responsible for conjugate eye movement?

a)

Precentral Gyrus

b)

Middle Temporal Gyrus

c)

Superior Parietal Lobule

d)

Frontal Eye Fields

22.

What part of the cerebrum is responsible for visuomotor, sensory, cognitive, higher order, and attentional functions as well as working memory?

a)

Inferior Frontal Gyrus

b)

Inferior Parietal Lobule

c)

Superior Frontal Gyrus

d)

Superior Parietal Lobule

23.

Name the structure:

(a)