Brain Basics
The brain and spinal cord make up this
The Central Nervous System
This lobe includes the motor cortex
The frontal lobe
This person was studied by Damasio et al (1994)
Phineas Gage
The tiny space between neurons
What is a synapse?
Females seem to do better than males on tasks involving ____
Language
This sends information to the central nervous system from the senses.
The Peripheral Nervous System
This plays a key role in motor skills
The Cerebellum
Also known as "face blindness"
Prosopagnosia
Tiny sacs inside the terminal buttons
What are vesicles?
This controls the right side of the body
What is the left hemisphere?
This connects the brain to the spinal cord
The Brainstem
Where visual processing occurs
The Occipital lobe
Who is Roger Sperry?
Studied the 'Split-Brain'
These are designed to absorb neurotransmitter molecules
What are receptors?
Brain tissue consisting mainly of axons
What is white matter?
The outer layer of the brain
Cortex
Located in the left hemisphere, this controls the production of speech
Broca's area
This means "without knowledge"
What is agnosia?
The long structure that carries the electrical impulse of a neuron
What is the axon?
This allowed the study of the living brain
What is the EEG?
Where higher processing occurs
Cerebrum
This connects the two hemispheres
The corpus callosum
These people have less activity in the pre-frontal cortex
Who are murderers?
This neurotransmitter calms us down
What is GABA?
The different tasks performed by each half of the brain
What is lateralisation of function?