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What is the thin, wrinkly outer layer of the brain called?
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What is The Cerebral Cortex?
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This lobe helps integrate sensory input to guide movement.
What is the Parietal lobe?
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This cortex area sends signals to your muscles so you can move.
What is the Motor Cortex?
100
This person's injury helped scientists get a greater understanding of the frontal lobe.
Who is Phineas Gage?
200
The right hemisphere of the cortex controls which side of the body?
What is The left side?
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This lobe contains the hippocampus.
What is the temporal lobe?
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This area in the left temporal lobe helps us understand spoken and written language.
What is Wernicke's Area?
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The Prefrontal Cortex doesn't fully develop until this stage in your life.
What is Your 20's?
300
This type of brain tissue makes up the cerebral cortex and is primarily composed of neuron cell bodies.
What is Gray Matter?
300
This structure plays a role in distinguishing real memories from imagined ones.
What is the Hippocampus?
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This band of fibers connects the two hemispheres of the brain so they can communicate.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
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Damage to this area of the left frontal lobe causes difficulty producing speech.
What is Broca's area?