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| Film Info on Hemispheric Dominance/ Split Brain Research-Vicki |
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affects left hemisphere(language)
Speaking
when damaged cant communicate but can understand |
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affects left hemisphere(language)
Understanding language
when damaged cant speak or understand |
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| used for coordination and movement; remembering things done on a daily basis, ex. routines names |
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| animal brian: central system which controls basically everything |
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| affects the whole brain (specifically hippocampus) cannot form memories, caused by alcohol |
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| Reticular Activation System |
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| arousal, over-stimulate, hallucinate |
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| relay center for all senses except smell; everything goes through the thalamus |
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| middle of limbic system; thermostat for endocrine system |
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| controls sleep and wake cycle |
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| groups of axons; pathways in central nervous system |
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| involved in emotion, tells the body how to feel about something |
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| processing of memories, every memory goes through the hippocampus |
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| the midbrain, helps pay attention |
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| logic, reasoning, motor functions |
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| neurons that carry outgoing info from the central nervous system to muscles and glands |
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| carries incoming info from the sense receptors to the central nervous system |
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| Function of Left Hemisphere |
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| speech, language, words,writing,logic, controls right side |
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| Function of Right Hemisphere |
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| art, music, architecture, mathematics, emotion, controls left side |
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| "morphine within", helps soothe pain and controls both pain and pleasure |
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| influence members of the same species sense |
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| Phineas Gage's accident damage, effects and significance |
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his frontal lobe was destroyed,
changed his personality
Brain affects personality |
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| coordination brain activity |
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nuclei-brain of the cell
ganglia-picks up incoming messages |
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| dendrites, soma, axon, myelin sheath, terminal buttons, synapse |
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