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Parts of the Brain	Areas of the Brain	Functions of the Brain	True or False	Fill in the sentence
100 Parietal Lobes What portion of the cerebral cortex lies at the top of the head and toward the rear?	100 Hippocampus What area of the brain is linked to memory?	100 Pons What has to do with the function of face expressions?	100 False Are there 2 lobes in the brain, true or false?	100 Brainstem The brain’s oldest and innermost region is the ________.
200 Amygdala What part of the brain influences aggression and fear; also looks like to lima bean-sized neural clusters?	200 Motor Cortex What area at the rear of the frontal lobes controls voluntary movements?	200 Ocippital Lobes What portion of the cerebral cortex involves the function of receiving information from the visual fields?	200 True Are pons a horse shoe structure in the brainstem crucial to life, true or false?	200 Thalamus Sitting at the top of the brainstem is the _______.
300 Temporal Lobes What part of the cerebral cortex lies roughly above the ears and includes the auditory areas?	300 Broca’s Area What area controls speech muscles via the motor cortex?	300 Sensory Cortex What area at the front of the parietal lobes registers and processes body touch and movement sensations?	300 True The left hemisphere section controls the body’s right side?	300 Limbic System At the border between the brain’s older parts and the cerebral hemispheres– the two halves of the brain – is the ________.
400 Frontal Lobes What portion of the cerebral cortex lies just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements?	400 Wernicke’s Area What area of the brain interprets auditory code/ disrupts understanding of something that’s been seen?	400 Corpus Callosum What large band of neural fibers connect the two brain hemispheres and carries messages between them?	400 True Aphasia is an imapairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Brocas’s area or to Wernicke’s area, true or false?	400 Cerebral Cortex Covering those hemispheres, like bark on a tree, is the _______, a this surface layer of interconnected neural cells.
500 Eating, drinking and body temperature What 3 maintenance activities does the hypothalamus do?	500 Heartbeat and breathing What two things does the medulla control?	500 Midbrain What servers important functions in motor movement, particularly movements of the eye, and in auditory and visual processing?	500 False Motor cortex is area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations, true or false?	500 Split Brains More over, the patients with these _____ were surprisingly normal, their personality and intellect hardly affected.

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