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This is the most posterior lobe of the brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
This hemisphere is primarily responsible for language processing and production.
What is the left hemisphere?
The central nervous system includes these two organs.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
This describes the convolutions found on the cerebral cortex.
What are gyri?
This structure separates the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the cerebral longitudinal fissure?
These cells are the most basic component of the nervous system.
What are neurons?
Neurons can respond in these two ways to input.
What are excitation and inhibition?
This anatomist first mapped the brain in 1909.
Who is Brodmann?
This is the most anterior lobe of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
This lobe is primarily responsible for language processing.
What is the temporal lobe?
The gyri and sulci of the brain create this to help with computing power.
What is surface area?
These are the meningeal linings that keep your brain safe and hold the structures together during movement.
What are the pia, arachnoid and dura matter?
These are the three main parts of the brain.
Speech motor production is commonly thought to be controlled by this brain region.
What is Broca's area?
These are the two anatomical divisions of the nervous system.
This system is responsible for voluntary motor movements, including speech production.
What is the somatic nervous system?
Wernicke's area is located in the this lobe while Broca's area is located in this lobe.
What are the temporal and frontal lobes?
What is the supramarginal gyrus?
These lobes make up the cerebrum.
What are the frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes?
This specific area of the parietal lobe is responsible for the integration of auditory, sensory and visual input.
What is the inferior parietal lobule?