Lobes and Cortexes
This lobe of the brain is responsible for processing primarily visual information from the eyes.
What is the occipital lobe?
This part of the brain is responsible for creating long-term memories
What is the hippocampus?
The hemisphere where most people process language.
What is the left hemisphere?
The brain's ability to reorganize and adapt throughout life.
A research technique where specific areas of an experimental animal's brain is damaged to study brain function.
What is lesioning?
This lobe of the brain is in charge of processing sensory information.
What is the parietal lobe?
This part of the brain processes emotions, notably fight or flight responses.
What is the amygdala?
Part of the brain that is located in the left hemisphere, the frontal lobe, and is responsible for speech production and language processing.
What is Broca's Area?
This part serves as the only connection between the two halves of the brain.
What is corpus callosum?
A neuroimaging technique that is used to record electric activity within the brain, non-invasive.
What is Electroencephalogram “EEG”?
This cortex of the brain is responsible for higher-level thinking and is what makes humans human.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating hormone production and maintaining homeostasis.
What is the pituitary gland?
Part of the brain that is located in the left hemisphere, the temporal lobe, and is responsible for understanding written and spoken language.
What is Wernicke's Area?
This refers to the concept that each half of the brain is specialized in different skills and abilities.
What is Hemispheric Specialization?
A neuroimaging technique used to record oxygen levels and blood flow changes within the brain.
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging “fMRI”?
This cortex is responsible for processing sensations from the skin, muscles, and joints.
What is the somatosensory cortex?
This section of the brain serves as a relay station for all incoming sensory information.
What is the thalamus?
A person with this disorder may have trouble producing fluent speech and talking at a regular pace.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
This term explains why the one half of the brain controls the opposite half of the body.
What is contralateral hemispheric organization?
A brain scan that uses radioactive material to map functional processes within the brain.
What is Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan)?
Parts of the brain that take in all sensory information and help put it together to make us understand our world.
What is the Reticular Activating System?
Person with this disorder may say nonsensical things and lack of awareness of what they're saying.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
This term is a long-lasting increase in signal transmission between neurons that comes from simultaneous activation.
What is Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)?
A type of brain scan that uses 2D x-ray photos to create a 3D representation of the brain.
What is Computer Tomography (CT or CAT Scan)?