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6. What lobes does the lateral fissure separate?

  • Frontal from the temporal and occipital
  • Occipital from the parietal and temporal
  • Temporal from the frontal and parietal.
  • Occipital from the frontal and parietal.

7. What are 2 important components of the basal ganglia?

  • medulla oblongata and the motor cortex
  • the sulci and gyri and brain
  • Subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra
  • subthalamic nucleus and pons

8. What is the somatosensory cortex and where is it located?

  • Processing centre for vision, parietal lobe
  • Processing centre for proprioceptive input, parietal lobe
  • Processing centre for smell, occipital lobe
  • Processing centre for proprioceptive input, frontal lobe

9. What is the motor cortex responsible for?

  • voluntary control of movement
  • sense of smell
  • involuntary control of movement
  • speech

10. What are some of the roles of the parietal lobe?

  • Personality, executive function and memories.
  • Memories, vision, receptive language and object recognition.
  • Movement, proprioception, language comprehension and recognition.
  • Personality, language production and sense of smell.

11. What does the cerebellum do?

  • controls speech
  • controls ascending pathways
  • Modifies motor commands on the descending pathways to make accurate movmeent
  • coordinates involuntary movement

12. Where is the motor cortex located?

  • temporal lobe
  • frontal lobe
  • parietal lobe
  • occipital lobe

13. What is the role of gyri and sulci?

  • Where the language centres of the brain are located
  • To increase the surface area of the brain
  • To transfer signals
  • To organise information in the brain

14. Which of these is the frontal lobe not responsible for?

  • Executive function
  • Reasoning
  • Proprioception
  • Emotions

15. What is the cerebral cortex?

  • A layer of grey matter located in the cerebral hemisphere
  • One of the lobes of the brain
  • Not part of the cerebrum
  • None of the above