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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