The Nervous System
This is made up of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
These are the three main components of a neuron
What are the dendrites, soma, and axon?
The part of the brain located at the top of the spine and the bottom of the brain
What is the brain stem?
The number of brain lobes
What is four?
The earliest studies of the brain included these people
Who are people with damage to a particular part of the brain?
Joe's medical condition
What is epilepsy?
This is how the human nervous system begins
What is a simple bundle of tissue that forms into a tube?
The part of the neuron that receives information
What are the dendrites?
A collection of highly specialized neural structures that are involved in regulating our emotions
What is the limbic system?
The location of the lobes in the brain
What is the cerebral cortex?
An imaging technique that measures electrical activity
What is Electroencephalography (EEG)?
The part of Joe's brain that was cut surgically
What is the corpus callosum?
The two branches of the peripheral nervous system
What are the somatic and autonomic nervous systems?
The electrical part of the neuronal signal
What is the action potential?
Like the brain stem, this part of the brain coordinates actions without conscious awareness
What is the cerebellum?
The house of the visual area of the brain
What is the occipital lobe?
An imaging technique that shines infrared light into the brain
What is Diffuse Optical Imaging (DOI)?
The hand Joe used to draw images that were shown to the left of the fixation point
What is his left hand?
The two branches of the autonomic nervous system
What are the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems?
The layer of fatty cells that helps cell-to-cell communication
What is the myelin sheath?
Also known as the "cerebrum"
What is the cerebral cortex?
The lobe for touch and taste and the lobe for sounds and smells (in order)
What are the parietal and temporal lobes?
An imaging quality that tells us the specific location of brain activity
What is spatial resolution?
The hemisphere of Joe's brain that detected the images shown to the left of the fixation point
What is the right hemisphere?
This person discovered the "just noticeable difference"
Who is Ernst Weber?
The neurotransmitter that affects sleep, hunger, and mood
What is serotonin?
In terms of brain function, the meaning of "contralateral"
What is the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa?
Symptoms that suggest potential damage to the frontal lobe
What are issues with speech and language, creative problem solving, planning, and organization?
Through autopsy, this person identified the part of the left side of the brain responsible for speech
Who is Paul Broca?
The famous neuroscientist who studied Joe's cognitive functioning
Who is Michael Gazzaniga?