The Brain, Structures, and Functions
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show | Consists of the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus(part of the limbic system). Collectively, this area is the largest and most highly developed part of the human brain. The source of intellectual activities
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Midbrain | show 🗑
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Hindbrain | show 🗑
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Right Hemisphere | show 🗑
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show | More dominant for language, calculations, math and logical abilities.
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Cerebral Cortex | show 🗑
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Cerebrum | show 🗑
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When people talk about "this" in the brain they are talking about the cerebral cortex. The folds in the brain add to it's surface area and therefore increase the amount of "this" | show 🗑
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Frontal Lobes | show 🗑
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show | Located in the rear portion of the frontal lobe, this helps control voluntary movement.
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show | Allows thoughts to be transformed into words
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Temporal Lobes | show 🗑
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Primary Auditory Cortex | show 🗑
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show | An important region for the processing of acoustic signals so that they can be distinguished as speech, music, or noise.
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Occipital Lobes | show 🗑
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Primary Visual Cortex | show 🗑
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Parietal Lobes | show 🗑
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Somatosensory Cortex | show 🗑
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show | It is involved in motor control and sensory analysis
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Reticular Activation System | show 🗑
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Medulla | show 🗑
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Basal Ganglia | show 🗑
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Cerebellum | show 🗑
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Limbic System | show 🗑
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Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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show | Involved in memory, emotion, and fear. It "evaluates" the fight-or-flight situations.
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show | Major clearinghouse for information going to/from the spinal cord&cerebrum. All sensory systems except smell pass through here before the information reaches the cerebral cortex. Also generates emotions.
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show | Acts as a memory indexer-sending memories out to the appropriate part of the cerebral hemisphere for long-term storage and retrieving them when necessary.
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Corpus Callosum | show 🗑
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