Terms
This is what CNS stands for.
What is Central Nervous System?
This area of the cerebral cortex interprets taste.
What is the taste area?
This is the name for the grooves found within the cerebral cortex.
What are sulci?
This area in the cerebral cortex interprets the basic visual information such as shape and color.
What is the visual cortex?
This is what CSF stand for and it's function to the nervous system.
What is cerebrospinal fluid that cushions and protects the brain?
This nervous system tissue is composed of collections of neuron cell bodies.
What is gray matter?
This area receives and localizes general sensations from the entire body.
What is the primary somatic sensory area?
These are the names of the four paired lobes of the cerebrum.
What are frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital?
This area interprets the basics of sound such as pitch and volume.
What is the primary auditory area?
This major structure deals with the motor functions that we perform without consciously thinking of them.
What is the cerebellum?
This tissue is composed of bundles of parallel axons and their sheaths.
What is white matter?
This area controls basic skeletal muscle movements.
What is the primary motor cortex?
Known as the 'arbor vitae' or 'tree of life', this structure is positioned inferior to the occipital lobe and posterior to the brain stem.
What is the cerebellum?
This area interprets the sensory information and puts it into context with your past experiences.
What is the somatic sensory association area?
These are the names of the three meninges from the most superficial to the most deep.
What are the dura mater, the arachnoid mater, and the pia mater?
This is a crossing over of neurons from the left to right side of the CNS.
What is decussation?
This area is the site of motivation and foresight, regulating mood and motion, and inhibiting impulsive behavior.
What is the prefrontal area?
These three structures make up the brain stem.
What are the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata?
This area works out the sequence of signals needed for learned complex motion.
What is the premotor area?
This is the function of the corpus callosum.
What is to allow communication between the left and right sides of the cerebrum?
These neuron connections allow the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other.
What is commissures?
This area deals with the comprehension of speech.
What is Wernicke's area?
These two structures make up what is known as the diencephalon, or interbrain.
What are the thalamus and hypothalamus?
This area initiates the muscle movements for speech.
What is Broca's area?
This is the main function of the ventricles within the brain.
What is to produce and contain cerebrospinal fluid?