The brain‚ unlike the heart is the most important part of the body‚ it weighs up to three pounds and comprises the hefty cerebrum‚ cerebellum‚ and the brainstem. The cerebrum which is the largest portion performs all higher cognitive functions. The cerebellum is responsible for motor functions‚ such as the coordination of movement and balance. The brain stem is dedicated to involuntary functions such as breathing. The brain is comprised of the cerebrum‚ cerebellum‚ and brain stem The largest part
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from the opposite ear) Brain Structures to be represented: Older Brain Structures: Brainstem: Medulla Pons Thalamus* Reticular Formation* Spinal Cord Cerebellum* Limbic System: Hypothalamus* Pituitary Gland* Amygdala* Hippocampus* Cerebral Cortex Frontal Lobes: Broca’s Area
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The Brain and Behavior Essay BEH/225 June 7‚ 2014 The Brain and Behavior In the four lobes of the brain‚ temporal lobe is of them. Cerebral cortex the major part of which this lobe is part of. It is on the lower side of both cerebral hemispheres on each side. This lobe has different functions‚ mainly auditory detection‚ keeping memory and emotional perception. The hippocampus happens to be an area of the brain that consolidates
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is accountable for regulating all of a human’s physical processes‚ including emotions‚ thinking‚ and activity. All cognitive functions commence in the cerebrum which is also recognized as the cerebral cortex and this region build up most of the brain’s mass (Ehow Health‚ 2011). The cerebral
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Evolutionary Psychology: Learning‚ Biology and the Brain Hegel—thesis (consciousness mind) anti thesis (beh) synthesis (cog/beh) Taste Aversion: powerful disinclination toward eating or drinking certain substances. Easily learned—sometimes after a single exposure—are highly resistant to extinction and demonstrate biological constraints What are 3 characteristics of taste aversion that classical conditioning doesn’t explain very well? 1. Conditioning results from the repeated pairing
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between a split-brain hippocampus and a normal brain hippocampus. The cut done on the corpus callosum will not affect the hippocampus because the cut would not be deep enough. 1C. The cerebral cortex of the normal brain is different from a split-brain cerebral cortex because it has not been severed. In a split-brain cerebral cortex the two
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The defining features of drug intoxication and addiction can be traced to disruptions in cell-to-cell signaling. October 01‚ 2007 Carl Sherman‚ NIDA Notes Contributing Writer illustration of a neuron Drugs of abuse alter the way people think‚ feel‚ and behave by disrupting neurotransmission‚ the process of communication between brain cells. Over the past few decades‚ studies have established that drug dependence and addiction are features of an organic brain disease caused by drugs’ cumulative
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Schizophrenia is a category of mental illness of the psychotic disorders. Psychosis refers to specific abnormalities of cognition that include delusions and hallucinations. The abnormalities of Schizophrenia are often divided into 3 categories. The first being cognitive which deals with abnormalities of attention and planning abilities. The second category of abnormalities of Schizophrenia is often called negative symptoms which can include blunted emotions and a loss of enjoyment. The third category
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PsychSim 5: Brain and Behavior 21 PsychSim 5: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR Name: Section: Brain & Behavior Date:1/20/2013 In this activity you will take a tour of the human brain and explore the major brain regions to discover the functions of each region or area. Functional Specialization • In terms of brain function‚ what is functional specialization? Each independent part
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various studies over sign language users. In case of spoken language users‚ auditory speech processing activates right hemisphere. With bilinguals it was believed that all the languages (more than two languages also) are localized in the same cerebral areas. But this had a controversy. It is proved by some experiments that brain areas recruited for L1 (primary language or the mother tongue) learning and processing are different from those recruited for L2 (second language acquired). The
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