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| 5142954934 | Cerebral Cortex | The intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering the cerebral hemispheres; the body's ultimate control and information-processing center. |  | 0 |
| 5142954935 | Glial Cells | Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons. "Glue cells"' Worker bees provide nutrients and insulating myelin guide neural connections mop up ions and neurotransmitters |  | 1 |
| 5142954936 | Frontal Lobes | portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements. |  | 2 |
| 5142954937 | Parietal Lobes | portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the head and toward the rear; receives sensory input for touch and body position. |  | 3 |
| 5142954938 | Occipital Lobes | portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head; includes areas that receive information from the visual fields. |  | 4 |
| 5142954939 | Temporal Lobe | An area on each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex near the temples that is the primary receiving area for auditory information |  | 5 |
| 5142954940 | Motor Cortex | an area of the brain, near the rear of the frontal lobes, that controls voluntary movement |  | 6 |
| 5142954941 | No | Brain has ______ sensory receptors | 7 | |
| 5142954942 | Somatosensory Cortex | A brain area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body sensations |  | 8 |
| 5142954943 | Auditory Cortex | Sound waves processed by ears, turned into neural impulses, and interpreted in this. Left ear impulses are interpreted by both hemispheres. |  | 9 |
| 5142954944 | Visual Cortex | (@ occipital lobes- rear of brain) recieves input from the eyes |  | 10 |
| 5142954945 | 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 | 11 | |
| 5143092240 | Aphasia | 12 | ||
| 5142954946 | Broca's Area | speech production |  | 13 |
| 5142954947 | Wernickes's Area | Damage disrupts understanding |  | 14 |
| 5142954948 | Plasticity | the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience. | 15 | |
| 5142954949 | neurogenesis | the formation of new neurons | 16 | |
| 5142954950 | behavior genetics | the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior | 17 | |
| 5142954951 | environment | every external influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us | 18 | |
| 5142954952 | chromosomes | threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes | 19 | |
| 5142954953 | DNA | a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes | 20 | |
| 5142954954 | genes | the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; segments of DNA capable of synthesizing proteins | 21 | |
| 5142954955 | genome | the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all genetic material in that organism's chromosomes | 22 | |
| 5142954956 | identical twins | twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two, creating two genetically identical organisms | 23 | |
| 5142954957 | fraternal twins | twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs, genetically no closer than brother and sister, but share a fetal environment | 24 | |
| 5142954958 | molecular genetics | the subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes | 25 | |
| 5142954959 | heritability | the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes | 26 | |
| 5142954960 | interaction | the interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor depends on another factor | 27 | |
| 5142954961 | epigenetics | the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change | 28 | |
| 5142954962 | Left visual field recieves info from _______ visual field. | Right. | 29 | |
| 5142954963 | Corpus callosum | The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them. | 30 | |
| 5142954964 | Split brain | A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brains two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them. | 31 | |
| 5142954965 | Split brain experiment: | Gazzaniga (1967) -The word heart was spelled on a screen/paper and there was a line through the middle of it. People with a split brain SEE the ART half and SAY the HE half. | 32 | |
| 5142954966 | Left hemisphere | Hemisphere that handles speech, verbals and hand signals. | 33 | |
| 5142954967 | Right hemisphere | Hemisphere associated with visual perception & recognition of emotion. | 34 | |
| 5142954968 | Consciousness | Our awareness of ourselves and our environment. | 35 | |
| 5142954969 | Cognitive neuroscience | The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition. | 36 | |
| 5142954970 | Cognitive neuroscience includes: | -perception -thinking -memory -language | 37 | |
| 5142954971 | Dual processing | The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. | 38 | |
| 5142954972 | Severed corpus callosum | Doesn't participate in information sharing. | 39 | |
| 5142954973 | lesion | tissue destruction | 40 | |
| 5142954974 | electroencephalogram (EEG) | an amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brain's surface, measured by electrodes attached to scalp | 41 | |
| 5142954975 | CT (computed topography) scan | a series of x-ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by computer into a composite representation of a slice of the brains structure | 42 | |
| 5142954976 | PET (position emission tomography) scan | a visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task | 43 | |
| 5142954977 | MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) | a technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images of soft tissue; show brain anatomy | 44 | |
| 5142954978 | fMRI | a technique for revealing bloodflow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans, shows brain function and structure | 45 | |
| 5142954979 | brainstem | the oldest part and the central core of the brain, beginning where the spinal cord swells as it enters the skull; responsible for automatic survival functions | 46 | |
| 5142954980 | medulla | the base of the brainstem; controls heartbeat and breathing | 47 | |
| 5142954981 | thalamus | the brains sensory control center; located at top of brainstem, directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla | 48 | |
| 5142954982 | reticular formation | a nerve network that travels through the brainstem and thalamus and plays an important role in controlling arousal | 49 | |
| 5142954983 | cerebellum | "little brain" at rear of the brainstem, functions include processing sensory input, coordinating movement output and balance, and enabling nonverbal learning and memory | 50 | |
| 5142954984 | limbic system | neural system located below the cerebral hemispheres; emotions and drive | 51 | |
| 5142954985 | amygdala | two lima-bean sized neural clusters in the limbic system; emotion | 52 | |
| 5142954986 | hypothalamus | a neural structure lying below the thalamus; directs several maintenance activities including hunger, thirst, body temperature, and sexual behaviour. It helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland and is linked to emotion and reward | 53 | |
| 5143070643 | Pons | 54 | ||
| 5142968968 | Dendrites | 55 | ||
| 5142970607 | Axon | 56 | ||
| 5142972348 | Myelin Sheath | 57 | ||
| 5142976777 | Terminal branches/axon terminal | 58 | ||
| 5142976778 | Cell body | 59 | ||
| 5142979538 | Synapse | 60 | ||
| 5142981903 | Action Potential | 61 | ||
| 5142981904 | Resting Potential | 62 | ||
| 5142984876 | Ions | 63 | ||
| 5142992865 | Selectively Permeable Surface of an Axon | 64 | ||
| 5142992866 | Refractory Period | 65 | ||
| 5142998557 | Excitatory and inhibitory signals | 66 | ||
| 5142998558 | Threshold | 67 | ||
| 5143001892 | All-or-none response | 68 | ||
| 5143001893 | Neurontransmitters | 69 | ||
| 5143005247 | Reuptake | 70 | ||
| 5143008403 | Acetylcholine | 71 | ||
| 5143008404 | Dopamine | 72 | ||
| 5143010234 | Serotonin | 73 | ||
| 5143012087 | Norepinephrine | 74 | ||
| 5143012088 | GABA | 75 | ||
| 5143015676 | Glutamate | 76 | ||
| 5143017766 | Substance P | 77 | ||
| 5143017767 | Endorphins | 78 | ||
| 5143020480 | Agonists | 79 | ||
| 5143023241 | Antagonists | 80 | ||
| 5143027235 | Botulin | 81 | ||
| 5143027236 | Curare | 82 | ||
| 5143031302 | Sensory Neurons | 83 | ||
| 5143031303 | Motor Neurons | 84 | ||
| 5143033715 | Interneurons | 85 | ||
| 5143033716 | Neural Networks | 86 | ||
| 5143037059 | Endocrine System | 87 | ||
| 5143037060 | Hormones | 88 | ||
| 5143040272 | Adrenal Gland | 89 | ||
| 5143042519 | Pituitary Gland | 90 | ||
| 5143076034 | Nucleus Accumbens | 91 | ||
| 5143079995 | James Olds" Research | 92 | ||
| 5143095822 | Sperry and Gazzaniga's Research | 93 |
