Occipital Lobe
The Occipital Lobe is the primary region in charge of ____.
Vision
What is the main function of the temporal lobe?
What is, processes auditory information, memory, language, and emotions.
What is the primary function of the frontal lobe?
Planning of movements
The Parietal Lobe is in charge of ____.
body sensations
The occipital lobe is the ____ of the lobes
Damage to the Occipital Lobe would lead to ____.
Cortical Blindness
What structure in the temporal lobe is necessary for creating memories?
What is the hippocampus.
The pre-central gyrus is also known as the ____?
Primary motor cortex
Receives sensations from three receptors. Name two of the three.
Touch, muscle-stretch, and joint.
What is the prefrontal cortexs working memory ability?
Where is the Occipital Lobe located?
The posterior part of the cortex
Damage to this area in the temporal lobe can result in difficulty of understanding language?
What is the Wernicke's Area.
Four other functions of the frontal lobe are language production, information integration, attention, and _____.
Planning
What are other functions does the Parietal Lobe have? Name one.
Multimodal Integration, Spatial Information, Numerical Information.
What are membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord?
What are meninges.
What is ONE side effect of cortical blindness?
No conscious visual perception, no visual imagery, no vision in dreams
The temporal lobe works closely with what part of the brain to integrate auditory and visual information for language comprehension?
What is the parietal lobe.
25-40%
Between the ____ and the ____.
Occipital Lobe and Central Sulcus.
What does the Postcentral Gyrus do?
Portions respond to touch or movement information at different parts of the body.
What are TWO visual characteristics of the striate cortex?
Orientation, size, color, spatial frequency
What syndrome occurs when wild monkeys fail to display normal fear and anxiety after temporal lobe damage?
What is Kluver-Bucy Syndrome.
What is the area of the frontal lobe that is often associated with decision making and personality?
Prefrontal cortex
The Postcentral Gyrus is the:
Primary Somatosensory Cortex.
What is the dopamine pathway that facilitates movement?
What is the substantia nigra.