Anatomical Orientations
Your trunk is ________ to your brain
caudal
What is the most superficial layer of the cerebrum?
Another name for a deep sulcus.
What is a Fissure?
The units of the cortex that are fundamental for processing and computation of information.
What are the cortical columns?
These fibers connect the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere through the corpus collosum.
What are commissural fibers?
Your lungs are ________ to your spine
anterior
What layer is made up of soma bodies
what are the gray matter areas
Another name for the "bumps" of the cortex
What is gyri?
Name the areas that process raw information input and direct output to effectors of the body.
What are the primary sites?
These white matter fibers link different areas of the same hemisphere.
What are association fibers?
Your nose is _________ to your eyes
medial
The white matter layer made up of?
What is soma bodies?
Another name for the "cleavage" of the brain
What is the sulcus?
The ability of the nervous system to simultaneously manage different parts of a single complex experience at once.
What is parallel processing?
These white matter fibers can extend from the internal capsule and can travel long distances.
What are projection fibers?
the wrist is _______ to the elbow
distal
This is the deepest layer of the cerebrum.
Ventricles
Longitudinal, Central, and Lateral are example of what type of cerebral cortex feature?
Fissures
What are association cortices?
Corona radiate are this type of white matter fiber.
What are Projection fibers?
The orientation that makes the patients left your right and your left the patients right side?
what is clinical orientation
1. Cortex
2. Nucleus
Primary functions of the cerebral cortex are...
What is analyzing info, making predictions, and making new behaviors.
All sensory areas of the cortex posses these.
What are dorsal and ventral processing pathways?
This structure allows for neural communication with and across the brain.
What are white matter pathways?