The Neuron
Brain Structure
Methods
Senses and Motor
Grab Bag
100
A type of glial cell in the central nervous system that forms myelin sheaths.
What are Oligodendrocytes?
100
A clear fluid that fills the ventricular system of the brain and the subarachnoid space surrounding the brain and spinal cord
What is CSF?
100
The process of comparing groups of people because of differences they have in real life (you don’t assign them to a group, they assign themselves)
What is quasiexperimental?
100
The location of primary motor cortex
What is the precentral gyrus?
100
Nerve tissue outside of the brain and spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system?
200
During rest, there is more of this neurotransmitter inside the neuron
What is K+ (potassium)?
200
A groove in the surface of the cerebral hemisphere, smaller than a fissure.
What is a sulcus?
200
A guide used to target a particular area of brain tissue in a specific animal
What is a sterotaxic atlas?
200
The process by which receptors convert an external energy into graded changes in receptor membrane potential
What is sensory transduction?
200
The most common inhibitory NT in the central nervous system
What is GABA?
300
Making the membrane potential less negative
What is depolarizing?
300
A structure in the interior of the rostral temporal lobe involved in fear perception
What is the amygdala?
300
A technique used to look at activity in the brain based on blood oxygen levels.
What is fMRI?
300
Commonly called the "where pathway" where visual information is sent to calculate the location of an object
What is the dorsal stream?
300
A category of long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations and experiences
What are episodic memories?
400
During this process, sodium rushes in, potassium rushes out, and the system resets
What is the action potential?
400
Damage to this region of the brain impairs standing, walking, or performance of coordinated movements.
What is the cerebellum?
400
The structural brain scan with the greatest spatial resolution
What is MRI?
400
A condition in which stimulation of one sensory system evokes an automatic stimulation of a different sensory system
What is synesthesia?
400
The area of the brain involved in speech production
What is Broca's area?
500
The process of one neuron communicating to another neuron
What is synaptic transmission?
500
The region of the metencephalon rostral to the medulla, caudal to the midbrain, and ventral to the cerebellum
What is pons?
500
The functional scan with the greatest temporal resolution
What is EEG?
500
The point-for-point correspondence of an area of the body to a specific point on the central nervous system
What is somatotopic?
500
The most caudal lobe of the brain
What is the occipital lobe?
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