The Brain I
This brain structure helps control balance, coordination, and procedural learning.
What is the cerebellum?
This brain structure helps regulate hunger, thirst, body temperature, and other homeostatic functions.
What is the hypothalamus?
This stage of sleep is characterized by rapid eye movements and vivid dreaming.
What is REM sleep?
This term refers to the state the body enters when it accrues sleep deprivation over several nights.
What is a sleep debt?
This process converts physical energy, such as light or sound waves, into neural signals the brain can process.
What is transduction?
Located at the back of the brain, this lobe primarily processes visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This structure is associated with processing fear and other emotional responses.
What is the amygdala?
This term refers to bodily cycles that repeat once in a 24-hour period.
What are circadian rhythms?
This sleep disorder involves difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or obtaining rejuvenating sleep.
What is insomnia?
This term describes the minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
This structure plays a major role in forming new explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This structure connects the brain's two cerebral hemispheres, allowing communication between them.
What is the corpus callosum?
During this stage of sleep brain waves slow substantially and the body enters deep sleep.
What is Stage 3?
This theory of dreaming suggests dreams are the brain's way of reviewing footage in order to prepare the mind.
What is the consolidation theory?
After sitting in a room with a strong odor for several minutes, you barely notice the smell anymore. This term is used to refer the phenomenon.
What is sensory adaptation?
This brain structure helps regulate basic functions such as breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla?
This lobe is especially associated with planning, decision-making, and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
This hormone, released by the pineal gland in response to darkness, helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle.
What is melatonin?
This disorder causes repeated interruptions in breathing during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
All our senses besides smell are routed through this brain structure before being processed in their respective cortexes.
What is the thalamus?
After a stroke, a patient struggles to understand spoken language. Damage to this lobe is most likely explanation.
What is the temporal lobe?
A patient can see an object but cannot identify it by touch alone when blindfolded. Damage to which lobe could impair the processing of touch and spatial information?
What is the parietal lobe?
Sleep stages are separated by electrical activity in the brain. That's measured by getting one of these done.
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)?
This theory of dreaming suggests dreams are just our brain's interpretation of random neural firing that happens in the brain while sleeping.
What is the activation-synthesis theory of dreaming?
These are the names of ALL SIX tastes.
What are sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami, and oleogustus?