The _____ hemisphere of the brain is superior to the ______ hemisphere in recognizing people's faces.
What is the right hemisphere?
Identify #1
What is the Cerebrum
The process of the brain receiving, processing, and reassembling millions of pieces of information.
What is perception?
Identify #1
What are dendrites?
During REM, we experience a sort of paralysis that prevents us from acting out our dreams, known as __.
What is paradoxical sleep?
This unfortunate man helped to spark modern interest in studying the physiology and biology of the brain.
Who was Phineas Gage?
Identify #2
What is the midbrain?
The process of taking in physical stimuli from the environment and changing it into electrical messages that can be interpreted & understood by the brain
What is transduction?
Identify #2
What is the cell body?
What is unique about the following nonsense phrase:
"umop apisdn"
It is "upside down" spelled upside down
______ cross the synaptic gap between cells to communicate a message from one to the other
What are neurotransmitters?
Identify #3
Which Gestalt law is this image an example of?
What is the law of closure?
Identify #3
What is the Myelin Sheath?
This chill-looking device is used to measure brain waves
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)?
Split-brain patients have had their ________ surgically cut
What is the corpus callosum?
Identify #4
What is the Pons?
The place of transduction in the ear
What is the cochlea?
Identify #4
What is the Axon?
The external part of the ear that helps us to catch sound.
What is the pinna?
This area of the brain is responsible for understanding spoken language
What is Wernike's area?
Identify #5
What is the Medulla?
The place for transduction in the eye
What is the retina?
Identify #5
What are axon terminals?
This state has more coast line than any of the other lower 48 states.
What is Minnesota?