Lobes
Hemispheres
Handedness
Labeling Parts of the Brain
Other
100
Which lobe controls hearing and speech functions?
Temporal Lobe
100
Which hemisphere controls the left side of your body?
The right hemisphere.
100
Lefties comprise ________ percent of the population.
10%
100
1
motor strip
100
What is the cerebral cortex?
The upper layer of the brain that controls higher level mental processes such as thought.
200
Which lobe contains the sensory strip?
Parietal lobe
200
What's the name of the depression that divides the two hemispheres?
A fissure.
200
What are two differences between lefties and righties?
Lefties are better actors. Lefties are better at math, art, and music.
200
2
Hemispheres
200
What is analytic thinking?
Breaking things down into their parts.
300
What is one function of the occipital lobe?
vision
300
What functions are controlled by the left hemisphere?
Speech, reading, writing, analytic thought, logic.
300
If you are a lefty, it means that the ______________ side of your brain has dominance.
right
300
3
sensory strip
300
What is spatial reasoning?
Understanding of the relationships of different objects in space. Useful for drawing.
400
Which lobe contains the motor strip?
The frontal lobe.
400
What functions are controlled by the right hemisphere?
Art, spatial reasoning, music, emotion, holistic thought
400
Major body movements are controlled by ____________ but for minor motor movements are controlled by ____________.
1.) Opposite hemisphere 2.) your dominant hemisphere.
400
4
temporal lobe
400
What is holistic thinking?
Understanding the whole, not the parts.
500
What are three functions of the frontal lobe?
Movement, personality, decision making.
500
Which hand can you balance a stick on for longer while reciting the alphabet? Why is it easier to balance the stick on one hand than the other?
Left hand. The left hemisphere controls speech, and the right hemisphere controls left side movement, so the work is divided between both sides of the brain and don't interfere with each other.
500
What causes people to become lefties?
At some point during a child's development, the program that signals a child's brain to develop dominance in the left hemisphere shifts to the right hemisphere.
500
500
cerebral cortex
500
What happened to Phineas Gage? What did this show us about the brain?
His frontal lobe was pierced by a metal pole, and his personality changed as a result. This showed us that the frontal lobe plays a role in personality.
M
e
n
u