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| automatic survival functions |
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| heartbeat + breathing; part of brainstem |
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| coordinates movement; part of brainstem |
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| arousal; part of brainstem |
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| coordinates muscular movement, helps process sensory informaiton |
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| emotions, memory, and drives |
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| responses of aggression +fear; part of limbic system |
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| bodily maintenance functions, rewards, hormonal system; part of limbic system. stimulates pituitary gland to produce hormones |
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| thin surface layer of networked neurons covering the hemispheres. learning, thinking, complex information processing |
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| speaking, muscle movements, planning, judgements |
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| receiving sensory input for touch + body position |
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| controls voluntary movement |
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visual cortex: register words as vis. stimuli
angular gyrus: transform into auditory codes
Wernicke's area: interpret codes, send to Broca's area
Broca's area: controls motor cortex to create pronounced words |
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| ability of things to pick up other functions |
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| verbal, speech in most people |
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| visual, recognizing emotion |
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| cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons |
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| areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions. they are involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking. |
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| controls language expression, an area of the frontal lobe that directs the muscle movements involved in speech. |
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| controls language reception, a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression (usually in the left temporal lobe) |
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| impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage iether to Broca's area(impairing speaking) or Wernicke's area(impairing understanding) |
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| the large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them |
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