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This is letter a and it's function.  

What is premotor (motor association) area for fine motor skills?

100

This is the basic functional unit of the nervous system. 

What is the reflex arc?

100

These are descending pathways- from Brain to Muscles.

What are motor pathways?

100

Say this:

How much wood, could a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood? 

Which part of the brain helps you with this?

What is Boca's area- motor speech area?

100

The part of the brain that helps distinguish between the coyote and the dog.

What is visual association area?

200

This is letter b and its function . 

What is the primary motor cortex, determines what body muscles to move?

200

This is the function of the reflex arc. 

The reflex arc allows your muscles to respond immediately- it is a preprogrammed system to keep us safe.  

200

These are ascending pathways- from receptors to brain. 

What are sensory pathways?

200

Listen to the song for 7 seconds- Name that tune

https://www.fourthchurch.org/weddings/wedding-demo-02-Ode-to-Joy.m4a

and what part of your brain helps you to recognize this song?

Tune of Ode to Joy

Auditory Cortex- allows for auditory association

200

The part of the brain that allows you to see the colors.

What is the visual area- visual cortex

300

This letter is the Wernicke's area nd its function. 

h- Wernicke’s area- syntax of speech ; formation of sentence structure  

300

The reflex arc begins here. 

What is the spinal cord?

300

a) This pathway uses two synapses 

b) this pathway uses three synapses

What is a) motor

           b) sensory

300
  • Hola, me llamo Elena, ¿y tú? = Hello, my name is Elena, and you?

The part of the brain allows you to learn a foreign language.

What is the Wernicke's area?

300

https://stocktune.com/free-music/neon-shadows-unveil-291261-172658

The part of the brain that determines low and high pitches.

What is auditory cortex?

400

This letter is the motor speech area and it's function- Bonus for the other name for it.   

j- motor speech area or Broca’s area - formation/articulation  of words, coordination of tongue

400

This is the spinal cord's function.

Spinal Cord- a conduit for messages from the brain to the PNS and from PNS back to the brain

400

Read this:

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

The part of the brain that allows you to read this excerpt.

this part helps you to recognize or comprehend what you are hearing.

What is angular gyrus (reading)

what is Wernick's area- speech comprehension

400

You got hit in the head with a soccer ball- 

this is the part of the brain that feels this pain.

What is somatosensory association area?

500

This is letter i and its function.  

i- auditory cortex-basics of sound/ volume and pitch  (hearing)

500

This is the amount of axons that cross over in the spinal cord in descending pathways.

What is 20% of the axons cross over the in the spinal cord?

500

Name these parts of the spinal cord.

Top- cranium

Cervical 

thoracic

lumbar 

sacrum

coccyx 

500

Write your name on the board.

This is part of the brain that allows you to do fine motor skills.

What is premotor area- motor association.

500

Get in a circle- 

one person throws the ball to someone, that person throws it to someone else, that person throws to someone else, and so on until all have had the ball thrown to them at least once.

The part of the brain that allows us to catch the ball.

What is primary motor cortex in the central gyrus?

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