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frontal lobe

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organization, direction, inhibition

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parietal lobe

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touch and proprioception (know where body is in space), synthesis

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occipital lobe

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visual

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cerebellum

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monitors and regulars motor behavior, learning and attention

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brain stem

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maintains homeostasis, controls autonomic functions (breathing, heart rate, blood pressure)

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limbic system

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instinct and mood, controls emotions and drives

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corpus callosum

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bundles of fibers that connect the left and right brain

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temporal lobe

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hearing, face/object recognition, emotional reactions

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language in

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left brain

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logic in

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left brain

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calculations in

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left brain

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L/R orientation in

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left brain

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finger naming in

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left brain

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speech (motor movement)

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left brain (brocas area)

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right hemibody, hemispace

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left brain

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arousal in

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right brain

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spatial (neglect) in

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right brain

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visuomotor in

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right brain

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emotion in

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right brain

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awareness in

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right brain

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prosody (tone of voice)

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right brain

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left hemibody and hemispace in

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right brain

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neuropsychology is

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the scientific study of the relationship between behavior and brain

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the brain is

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an old english word for tissue around skull, 2 symmetrical hemispheres connected by commissures

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gyri

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folds of cortex

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sulci

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creases between folds, fissures

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forebrain

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cerebral cortex, performs higher function like thinking, perception and planning

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brainstem

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underlying tube, performs regulatory and movement producing functions

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spinal cord

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connected to brainstem and descends down back, performs regulatory and movement functions

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central nervous system (CNS)

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brain and spinal cord, tissue doesn’t regenerate after damage

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peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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somatic and autonomic, fibers that carry info to and from CNS, tissue can regenerate after damage

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Aristotle’s theory of the mind

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psyche-nonmaterial, responsible for human thoughts perceptions and emotions, mentalism (idea that mind is responsible for behavior)

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Descartes: mind-body problem

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body is material and performs like a machine, while the mind is nonmaterial and decides what movements the machine should make. How can nonmaterial mind produce movement in material body

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dualism

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position that the mind and body are separate but interact

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darwin and materialism

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materialism is rational behavior can be fully explained by the workings of the nervous system

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localization of function

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idea that different parts of the brain perform different functions

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Franz Josef Gali and Johann Casper Spurzheim studied depressions and bumps in skill

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called phrenology-laid foundation for modern localization of function. cranioscopy is the method used to measure bumps and depressions for personality assessments

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broca’s aphasia

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left hemisphere, problem producing speech

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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left hemisphere, back of brain, understanding speech

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wernicke produced

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first model for organization of language. wernickes area connected to brocas aread via arcuate fasciculus-conduction aphasia. geschwind updated in 1960s

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Flourens removed areas of cortex of animal brains and studied resulting changes in behavior

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found no specialization for areas of cortex, specialization of brainstem, refuted localiztion of function

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hierarchial organization

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each successively higher level of the neurons system controls more complex aspects of behavior, after damage to higher level behavior becomes more simple

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HM

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amnesia, but could learn procedural memory, proves no 1 localization in brain for memory

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ventral stream

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“what” stream, mediates actions controlled by conscious visual perception

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dorsal stream

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“where” stream, vision for action without conscious awareness

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neuron hypothesis

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neurons: are discrete, send electrical signal, communicate with each other via chemical signal(neurotransmitter) across synapse

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glia

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nervous system cell, holds neurons together, carry out supportive functions

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neurons

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nervous system cell, acquire process and act on info, cell body, dendrites and axons

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electrical activity

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stimulates brain to induce movement, transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Donald Hebb-Hebb or plastic synapses

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when cells activated at same time, establish or strengthen the synapse, brain is plastic and constantly changing

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brain imagine

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produces 2&3 dimensional images of the brain using computers

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computerized tomography (CT)

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passage of xrays through head, quick and cheap

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positron emission tomography (PET)

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injection of radioactive substances into the blood, substance gives off photons as it decays, computers detect photon origins and construct image of brain

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magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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identifies location of moving molecules by detecting electrical charge generated by movement, high resolution