Cortex
Lobes
Interior/Bottom Structures
Miscellaneous
Neurons
100
This cortex is located in the temporal lobe and is responsible for hearing.
What is the auditory cortex?
100
This lobes controls vision and short term memory
What is the occipital lobe?
100
If a patient damaged their auditory cortex, what function could they lose?
Hearing
100
What is the frontal lobe?
100
The type of nerve cells that take information to the brain via the PNS due to external stimuli from the outside environment are what?
What are sensory neurons
200
Damage to this cortex could cause lead to long-term visual impairment.
What is the visual cortex?
200
This lobe controls personality, behavior, and cognitive processes like planning and organization
What is the frontal lobe?
200
This internal structure of the brain is the center of sensations
What is the thalamus?
200
If you are more creative, emotional, and musically inclined, you are considered _______ brained.
What is the right
200
The long extension of the neuron that allows the message to travel
What is the axon
300
This cortex is located in the parietal lobe.
What is the sensory cortex?
300
This lobe helps your brain process smells and sounds as well as words and language
What is the temporal lobe?
300
This part of the brain controls balance, coordination and movement.
What is the cerebellum
300
What is the red pointing to?
What is the thalamus?
300
The top of the neuron that receives information from the neuron above it
What is a dendrite
400
Damage to this cortex would cause problems with muscle movement.
What is the motor cortex?
400
This lobe helps process sensory information as well as spatial processing
What is the parietal lobe?
400
This structure delivers information to the brain and carries out vital functions like breathing, heart beat and swallowing.
What is the brain stem?
400
This internal structure is only responsible for smell.
What are the olfactory bulbs?
400
The fatty substance on a neuron that allows the message to travel much faster and protects the axon
What is myelin sheath
500
Not a cortex...but damage to this area of the brain would cause sleep problems, improper temperature regulation and hunger and thirst abnormalities.
What is the Hypothalamus
500
Not a lobe....this part of the brain controls hormone production and growth and metabolism.
What is the pituitary gland
500
This is the area where the optic signal is crossed from one side to the other.
Optic chiasm
500
The connective tissue that holds the left and right hemispheres together and allows messages to flow from one side to the other.
What is the corpus callosum
500
This part of the neuron houses the DNA
What is the nucleus