Like a Sieve
99 percent of sensory information that enters the brain is filtered out by this part of the brain.
What is the thalamus?
The top-most part of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
In charge of language functions and logical thought.
What is "seahorse"?
The two types of cells that make up the central nervous system.
What are neuron and glial cells.
The thalamus sends information to these two parts of the brain.
What are the cortex and the amygdala
A thick cable that connect the hemispheres.
What is the corpus collosum?
Responsible for perception of rhythm, spatial-relation skills, and absract or intuitive thought.
What is the right hemisphere?
Another name for cerebellum.
These cells number approximately 100 billion and transmit information.
What are neurons?
Procedural memory and emotional memory are included in this.
What is long term memory.
Allows the 2 hemispheres to communicate and share memory and learning.
What is the corpus collosum?
A rare condition where a person is born without a corpus collosum.
What is Agenesis?
Another name for "cortex".
These receive information from other cells.
What are dendrites?
Sensory memory and working memory are included in this.
What is short term memory.
Part of the brain that controls emotions.
What is the amygdala?
Specializes in recognizing words and numbers.
What is the left hemisphere?
What is "horse's tail"?
This sends information to other cells.
What is an axon?
The most important factor which influences the thalamus during initial filtering.
What is emotional data - (survival)?
The part of the brain that holds memory of the immediate past and dispatches memory to long term storage.
What is the hippocampus?
Specializes in recognizing faces, places, objects, and music.
What is the right hemisphere?
Another name for "brainstem".
What is the "reptilian brain"?
The junction where neurons communicate electrochemically by passing messages.
What is the synapse?