Brain Anatomy - Structure
This part of the brain is divided into the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
This part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This part of the neuron receives information.
What are dendrites?
This deep brain structure is shaped like a seahorse and is essential for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This cognitive process allows you to temporarily hold and manipulate information, such as remembering a phone number long enough to dial it.
What is working memory?
This structure connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This region of the brain processes touch and sensation information.
What is the parietal lobe?
This surrounds some axons and helps speed up the transmission of electrical signals.
What is the myelin sheath?
This brain region is strongly involved in regulating emotions such as fear.
What is the amygdala?
When you automatically focus on a loud noise or sudden movement without consciously deciding to, you are demonstrating this cognitive process.
What is attention?
The ridges and folds of the cerebral cortex are known as what, respectively.
What are gyri and sulci?
This portion of the nervous system is responsible for maintaining homeostasis, also known as “rest and digest”.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The gap between neurons that signals cross is known as:
What is the synaptic cleft?
This term describes the brain's ability to change its structure and function in response to experience and learning.
What is neuroplasticity?
A student studies in the same room where they will later take an exam and performs better partly because the environment provides memory cues. This demonstrates this phenomenon.
What is context-dependent memory?
These fluid-filled cavities within the brain produce and contain cerebrospinal fluid.
What are the ventricles?
This brain region is responsible for the coordination of movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
This electrical signal travels down a neuron's axon.
What is the action potential?
This part of the cortex is particularly important for decision-making, planning, and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This phenomenon occurs when information learned earlier interferes with your ability to remember newly learned information.
What is proactive interference?
This small region is located ventrally to the thalamus in the forebrain and acts as a control center to keep your internal systems stable and balanced.
What is the hypothalamus?
This structure takes in sensory information from the environment, except smell, and is located deep within the brain.
What is the thalamus?
During an action potential, this ion rapidly enters the neuron to cause depolarization.
What is sodium (Na+)?
What is Broca's area?
In this famous cognitive neuroscience phenomenon, people can fail to notice a highly visible unexpected event because their attention is focused elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?