This part of the limbic system is linked with aggression and fear.
What is the amygdala?
100
This is essentially the brain's central control and information processing center.
What is the cerebral cortex?
100
This region processes sound waves heard by the ear, and turns them into neural impulses.
What is the primary auditory cortex?
100
This information highway connects the peripheral nervous system to the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
200
This portion of the brain controls heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
200
This region directs several maintenance activities such as eating, drinking, and maintaining body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This lobe is located behind the forehead and its primary function is speaking and controlling muscle movements. It also is involved in making plans and judgments.
What is the frontal lobe?
200
To be able to physically speak and pronounce words, you need this cortex.
What is the primary motor cortex?
200
The wide band of axon fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain and carrying messages between them.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
These two parts of the brain stem helps coordinate movement. One of them also processes sensory input. (Must get both parts of question to receive points).
What is the cerebellum and the pons?
300
While not part of the limbic system, this region influences the release of hormones by other structures and is controlled by another part of the limbic system.
What is the pituitary gland?
300
This large region of the brain consists of two hemispheres and contributes 85% of the brain's weight. It forms work teams that enable our perceiving, thinking, and speaking.
What is the cerebrum?
300
This portion of the brain feeds information to higher level networks that combine the atoms of experience and relay them to progressively higher level association areas, enabling us to recognize faces.
What is the primary visual cortex?
300
This particular area of the brain is contained inside the parietal lobe and receives incoming touch sensations from the rest of our body.
What is the primary somatosensory cortex?
400
This particular region of the brain acts as the brain sensory switchboard; it receives information from all of the five senses except this one. (Must get both parts of question to receive points).
What is the thalamus and the sense of smell?
400
Without this region of the brain, one will be unable to form new memories.
What is hippocampus?
400
Damage to this structure would inhibit our ability to process and comprehend sounds sensed by our ears.
What is the temporal lobe?
400
Damage to this area inhibits the ability to formulate new sentences and speech, but does not hinder one's ability to repeat familiar songs and phrases.
What is Brocha's area.
400
This is the brain's ability to modify itself after some types of damage.
What is brain plasticity?
500
If this region of the brain is severed, one will never awaken from a coma.
What is the reticular formation?
500
These two neuropsychologists discovered a brain center that provides a pleasurable reward. (Must get both parts of question to receive points).
Who are James Olds and Peter Milner?
500
Both of these structures are located towards the back of the brain. The first structure receives sensory input from touch and body position and the second interprets optical impulses from the retinas. (Must get both parts of question in proper order to receive points).
What are the parietal lobe and the occipital lobe.
500
When viewing of a picture two boys stealing cookies behind a women's back, a patient responded "Mother is away her working her work to get her better but when she's looking the two boys looking the other part. She's working another time." This patient had damage to this part of his brain which disrupted his understanding.
What is Wernicke's area?
500
This is a condition that results from surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them.