Brain part located where the spinal cord swells slightly after entering the skull.
What is the brainstem?
100
Newer neural networks within this area of the brain form specialized work teams that enable our perceiving, thinking and speaking.
What is the cerebrum?
100
These lobes enable mathematical and spatial reasoning.
What are parietal?
100
This brain part interprets auditory code.
What is Wernicke's area?
100
The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with our mental processes.
What is cognitive neuroscience?
200
The "little brain".
What is the cerebellum?
200
These are the "worker bees" of the brain, whereas neurons are like the queen bees, who cannot, on their own, feed or sheathe themselves.
What are the glial cells?
200
Some people with this "disability" can speak fluently but cannot read, while others can comprehend what they read but cannot speak.
What is aphasia?
200
Hearing words involve these 2 parts of the brain.
What are auditory cortex and Wernicke's area?
200
In today's science, one of the most hotly pursued research quests is to understand the biology of this.
What is consciousness?
300
The "master gland".
What is the pituitary gland?
300
Stimulating a point on the top of this brain part and a person may report being touched on the shoulder; stimulate some point on the side of the same part and a person may feel something on the face.
What is sensory cortex?
300
In processing language, as in other forms of information processing, the brain operates by dividing its mental functions--speaking, perceiving, thinking, remembering--into these.
What are subfunctions?
300
These 2 parts of the brain involve seeing words.
What are visual cortex and angular gyrus?
300
Connector of the 2 brain hemispheres.
What is corpus callosum?
400
The hippocampus is linked to memory as the amygdala is linked to this.
What is emotion?
400
More intelligent animals have more of these types of areas of the cortex.
What are association areas?
400
This brain part transforms visual representations into an auditory code.
What is angular gyrus?
400
These 2 brain parts involve speaking words.
What are Broca's area and the motor cortex?
400
Many functions require the interplay of several of these parts of the brain.
What are lobes?
500
These types of brain networks sustain basic life functions and enable memory, emotions and basic drives.
What are older brain networks?
500
Damage to this lobe can alter personality, removing a person's inhibitions.
What is frontal?
500
This brain part controls speech muscles via the motor cortex.
What is Broca's area?
500
Although the left hemisphere of the brain is adept at making quick, literal interpretations of language, the right hemisphere excels in making these.
What are inferences?
500
Brain part that is an important link in the chain of command governing bodily maintenance.