Mod 12 & 13READING GUIDE

​ (a)   brain networks sustain basic life functions and enable memory, emotions, and basic drives. ​ (b)   neural networks within the ​ (c)   - the two hemispheres contributing ​ (d)   percent of the brain's weight - form specialized work teams that enable our perceiving, thinking and speaking.

• Older
• Newer
• cerebrum
• 85
• 35
• cerebellum

Match the following

• Occipital Love

• The intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering the cerebral hemispheres; the body's ultimate control and information-processing center.

• Frontal Lobe

• A region of the cerebral cortex whose functions include processing information about touch.

• Parietal Lobe

• An area on each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex near the temples that is the primary receiving area for auditory information

• Temporal Lobe

• A region of the cerebral cortex that has specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, speaking, memory, and judgement

• Cerbral Cortex

• A region of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information

The _____ Cortex is an area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement

Output: ​ (a)   cortex. Right hemisphere section controls the body's ​ (b)   side.

Input: ​ (c)   cortex. Left hemisphere section receives input from the body's ​ (d)   side.

• motor
• left
• somatosensory
• right

Clinical trial of such ​ (a)   neural prosthetics are now under way with people who have severe ​ (b)   or have lost a limb. The first patient, a 25-year-old man with paralysis was able to ​ (c)   control a TV, draw shapes on a computer screen, and play video games --- all thanks to an aspirin-sized chip with 100 ​ (d)   recording activity in his ​ (e)   cortex.

• cognitive
• paralysis
• mentally
• microelectrodes
• motor
• somatosensory

Clinical trial of such ​ (a)   neural prosthetics are now under way with people who have severe ​ (b)   or have lost a limb. The first patient, a 25-year-old man with paralysis was able to ​ (c)   control a TV, draw shapes on a computer screen, and play video games --- all thanks to an aspirin-sized chip with 100 ​ (d)   recording activity in his ​ (e)   cortex.

• cognitive
• paralysis
• mentally
• microelectrodes
• motor
• somatosensory

Match the following

• Motor Cortex

• area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

• neurogenesis

• the ability of other parts of the brain to take over functions of damaged regions. Declines as hemispheres of the cerebral cortex lateralize.

• Somatosensory Cortex

• an area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements

• Association Areas

• areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions; rather, they are involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking

• Brain Plasticity

• the process of developing new neurons

True or False: We only use 10% of our brains.

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Maybe not

The _________ cortex in the forward part of the frontal lobes enables judgement, planning and processing of new memories.

Match the following

• Paul Broca

• railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function

• Carl Wrnicke

• Brothers who tried to figure out what to do with the 104 days of summer vacation. They also had a pet platypus...named Perry

• Phineas adn Ferb

• the part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscles involved in speech was named for him, because he first identified it

• Phineas Gage

• an area of the brain (in the left temporal lobe) involved in language comprehension and expression was named for him because he discovered it