Areas of the brain
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- Created on: 08-05-14 19:55
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- The brain
- Central core- regulates primitive, involuntary behaviours
- Hypothalamus- regulates eating, drinking and sexual behaviours
- Endocrine system-for homeostasis
- Limbic system- controls emotions
- Hippocampus- important in memory. 'HM' is an example of what happens when this doesn't operate
- Cerebrum- regulates higher intellectual processes. Composed of right and left hemispheres connected by a bundle of fibres- corpus callosum- which enables messages to be conveyed across hemispheres
- Frontal lobe- our consciousness
- Parietal lobe- location for sensory and motor movements
- Motor area- controls voluntary movements- movements on right hemisphere controlled by left, vice versa. Damage= impaired movements
- Somatosensory area- responds to sensory inputs (taste etc.) and sense of body movement. Amount of area associated with a particular part is related to its use and sensitivity
- Temporal lobe- location for auditory ability and memory acquisition
- Auditory area- responsible for analysis of speech- based info. Hold Wernicke's area- those struggling with language comprehension have Wernicke's aphasia
- Occipital lobe- location for vision
- Visual area- damage to the left hemisphere can produce loss of vision in the right side of our environment, and damage to the left optic nerve can affect the left eye
- Central core- regulates primitive, involuntary behaviours
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