Brain Parts
The three millimetre outer layer of the cerebrum
What is the cerebral cortex?
Comprised of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
receives information from other neurons
What is a dendrite?
phineas gage injured this part of his brain
What is the frontal lobe?
Children's brains have more of this than adults.
what is plasticity?
receives and processes sensory information related to touch pressure and temperature.
What is the Primary Somatosensory Cortex
This division is dominant most of the time, maintaining homeostasis without our conscious awareness.
What is the Parasympathetic NS?
Information that travels from dendrite to axon terminal is referred to as this?
What is an electrical or neural impulse?
Spatial neglect where you ignore the left part of your world is a result of damaging this specific lobe.
When recovering from a stroke, a patient with this injury would be encouraged to use their left hand and pay attention to the left side of images to encourage neurons to re-establish connections.
helps produce language that is clear and fluent
Communicates motor messages directly to the skeletal muscles in order to perform voluntary movements.
What is the Somatic NS?
chemical messengers that are released from the axon terminal and travel across the synaptic gap to receptor sites on the post synaptic neuron.
What are neurotransmitters?
Only putting makeup on the right side of your face and not eating the left side of your plate are examples of these.
What are symptoms of spatial neglect?
this type of plasticity helps us recover from brain injuries.
what is adaptive plasticity?
Stores memories and helps us recognise faces
What is the Temporal lobe?
Simply communicates information between the brain and the peripheral nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
a white fatty substance that insulates and protects messages that travel along the axon.
A conclusion of Sperry and Gazzaniga's experiments on patients with split brain surgery was that the left hemisphere is more dominant in language which is referred to as this.
What is hemispheric specialisation?
When learning a new way of solving problems in maths, your brain uses both of these processes.
integrates different sources of sensory information from the environment in each of the four lobes.
What are association areas?
Increases arousal in times of stress to help us deal with a perceived threat.
What is the sympathetic NS?
a type of neuron that allows sensory and motor neurons to communicate and are only found in the central nervous system.
What are interneurons?
If flashing an object to this visual field, a split brain patient would not be able to verbalise what they saw but could use their left hand to identify the item.
What is the left visual field?
When damaged neuron's find nearby undamaged neurons to establish a pathway with when recovering from a brain injury.
what is rerouting?