Brainy Areas
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100
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?