Your Other Sense
This is the sense that is the closest associated with memory.
What is smell?
These are the four major lobes of the Cortex.
What are frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital?
The protective layer on the outside of your eye.
What is the cornea?
The brainstem or the...is the most basic part of our brain and it also known as the reptilian brain.
What is the hindbrain?
The part of the brain responsible for interpreting sensory information from the body.
What is the parietal lobe?
The term for your sense of smell.
What is Olfaction?
The motor cortex is located in this lobe.
What is the frontal lobe?
The two types of photoreceptors in the retina.
What are the rods and the cones
This part of the brain is responsible for forming new memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
The term for a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure.
What is habituation?
A theory used to explain how some pain messages are a higher priority than others.
What is Gate Control Theory?
Which lobe and hemisphere is responsible for processing sound from the left ear
The left temporal
Nicknamed the hammer, anvil and stirrup, these tiny bones vibrate by the ear drum and push against the cochlea.
What are the ossicles?
It's the relay station for your sensory information.
The weakest level of a stimulus that can be correctly detected at least half of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
Someone missing their papillae would be unable to do this.
What is Gustation (taste)?
One function of the pre-frontal cortex
What is: higher order thinking, emotion, impulse control, goal setting, decision making.
This pair of cells forms a bridge between the optic nerve and the photoreceptors in your fovea.
What are the bipolar and ganglion cells?
There are this many lobes in the brain.
What is 8?
This part of the brain deals with creativity and emotions.
What is the right hemisphere?
While touch, sound and sight gather information through energy: Taste and Smell gather information this way and your vestibular and kinesthetic senses gather information this way.
What are through chemicals and body position?
The areas of the brain that processes language and then produces speech
What is Broca's area and Wernicke's area?
A sound that is high pitched as a high frequency and a...
what is a short wavelength?
The brain's ability to change and adapt in response to experience.
What is neuroplasticity?
The protective membranes of the brain.
What are the meninges?