Cerebral Cortex and Frontal Lobe The outer layer of our forebrain consists of the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is so significant since it controls our ability to learn and store complex and abstract information. Also‚ it is our control and information processing center. The cerebral cortex consists of many interconnected neurons that are quite useful. The cerebral cortex covers the frontal lobe. This lobe is so important because it controls our organization‚ planning‚ and creative thinking
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Biology of Mind Modules 4‚ 5 and 6 * Everything psychological is simultaneously biological * Plato correctly located the mind in the spherical head * Aristotle believed mind was in the heart * Although heart is the symbol for love‚ psychology has proven that you fall in love using your brain * 1800s Franz Gall (German psychologist) invented phrenology theory that claims that bumps on our skull could reveal our mental ability and character traits * Biological
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allows the synapse to pass information. Axon – It’s a long slender part of the nerve cell‚ that helps transmit the neural signal. Neurotransmitter – They are brain chemicals that communicate throughout the body. Amygdala – It is located in the cerebral hemisphere that looks like a grey almond shape‚ it controls the emotions we have from hormones‚ arousal and emotional memories. Hippocampus – This is in the medial temporal lobe it’s a small organ and is very important to the limbic system‚ it
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The cerebral cortex outer layer of the cerebrum has the two largest hemispheres that cover the upper part of the brain which are divided into smaller portion called lobes. Corticalization is an increase in size of the wrinkling of the cortex and without this we would not be smarter than any other animal. Cerebral hemispheres are divided into right and left sides of the cortex connected by thick band axon fibers called corpus. Hemispheric specialization‚ testing only one side of the brain by a process
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| | |Ventricles |Hollow spaces in the brain filled with cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) | |Occipital Lobe |The region at the back of each cerebral hemisphere that contains the centers of | | |vision and reading ability | |Frontal
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The brain of an average human being contains 100 billion nerve cells or neurons. Billions more are found in other parts of the nervous system. Neurons come in all different sizes and shapes‚ but they all seem to be specialized to receive and transmit information. Neurons are made of neurons which contains chromosomes and genes‚ a cytoplasm which keeps the cells alive and a cell membrane that encloses the whole cell. Neurons are different from other cells because they have small fibers that branch
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1.An extensive network of specialized cells that carry information to and from all parts of the body is called the nervous system. 2.The basic cell that makes up the nervous system and which receives and sends messages within that system is called a neuron. 3.The long tube-like structure that carries the neural message to other cells on the neuron is the axon. 4.On a neuron‚ the branch-like structures that receive messages from other neurons are the dendrites. 5. The cell body of the neuron‚ responsible
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participants ability to transfer messages from the cerebral hemispheres to the neural mechanisms. Materials The experiment measured participants response to stimulus‚ determining whether the cerebral hemispheres can communicate. Each test consisted of materials (a) the screen‚ and (b) the object. Being shown a word in either visual field tested the participants capability to process the visual stimulus‚ and share information between the cerebral hemispheres. Procedure Participants were positioned
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proportion to the damage of visual ability in an animal. Lashley performed experiments with the intent on proving that a memory trace‚ which is the basic building block on cognition and learning could not be located in any one single portion of the cerebral cortex. In one experiment Lashley had trained rats to run through a maze without turning down any dead ended isles. He then created lesions in the cortex of the animal‚ before initial training in some‚ and after training in others. The rats with
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The Brain Brittany Wagner Psy/240 June 22‚ 2014 Jennifer Graves The Brain The brain is like a hard drive for a computer. Like a hard drive the brain also has many wires and complicated looking things in there. It is a lot easier to understand what part of the brain does what when it is broken down into the five major parts. The brain has five major parts and each part helps the human body function. The five major parts are called the myelencephalon‚ metencephalon‚ mesencephalon‚ diencephalon
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