Modern Humans and Evolution
All vertebrates begin development with what shared structure? It will become the spinal column in modern humans.
Hollow or neural tube
A medial view results from what kind of section?
Saggital
False
True or False? Our Radiolab listening indicated that Einstein's brain had significantly more volume than the brains of most modern humans?
False
The dorsal orientation in a fish is identical to what orientation(s) in the human?
Superior
To have the eye and hand control to swing between trees is called to:
Brachiate
What structure is made up of more than 200 millon nerve fibers and communicates between the two hemispheres?
Corpus calloused
The grooves in the cerebrum or cerebral cortex of the brain are called:
Sulci
What theory posits that the mind and the body are wholly separate?
Mentalism
The latin root "cauda", as in caudal, is synonymous with?
Tail
Elephants have a very high packing density in what part of the hindbrain? It also controls voluntary movement?
Cerebellum
The tectum and the tegmentum, including the substantia nigra, involved in neural communication, are part of what structure of the brain?
Midbrain
A blockage in a cerebral artery of the brain is also called?
Stroke, specifically an ischemic stroke
What TWO researchers do we associate with materialism?
rostral
Color vision is a characteristic of what order class of modern humans?
Primates
There are six structures that protect the brain: The skull, the dura mater, arachnoid membrane, the pia mater, and a cushion of cerebral spinal fluid. Additionally, CSF is in the ventricles, further cushioning the brain. Which of these structures is the softest?
Best answer: Pia mater
Ok: CSF (it floats between the brain tissue and the pia mater)
Bundles of nerves in the PNS are called?
Nerves; tracts inside the brain
Descartes, or Rene Descartes
A transverse section is synonymous with what kind of section?
Horizontal
Please go to slide 17 of lecture 1&2; spend some time with it, and ask Jaylin or Makayla to read the the notes at the bottom of the slide. I will definitely have this material on the first exam. Then, please offer at least one benefit of a prolonged infancy in modern humans.
More time for learning; development
The phenomenon that the nervous system on one side of an organism, in this case modern human, mirrors that of the other side is called:
True or False: Most CNS neurons are with us for life?
True
Please name the three types of interneurons:
Stellate cell, Purkinje cell, Pyramidal cell
If I want to see the 4 ventricles of the brain--those spaces that fill with CSF--what section would I want to use?
Saggital