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9.Cortexlobesventricles.pptPituitary gland—controls hormone release in other glands.
- What abilities or characteristics make human beings distinct from all other animals?
- Large sheets of neurons
- Wrinkled to fit inside skull: Gyri and Sulci
- Left & Right Hemispheres
- Connected by Corpus Callosum
- Coverings: dura mater and pia mater
Surface of cerebral hemispheres: gray matter--somas, dendrites.
- Horizontal layers
- Vertical columns
- Deep brain tissue: White matter—axon tracts (3-D)
Coronal View
Sagittal View
- 4 Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex (Fig 3.8, p. 58):
Primary visual cortex--receives input from _______?_______
Primary motor cortex
- Initiates complex movements
Prefrontal cortex
- planful behavior
- social judgment
- Working memory
Primary somatosensory cortex
- Touch/pain
- Movement
- Body Position
Receives input from _____?______
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Primary auditory cortex
Complex visual processing
Olfaction
Emotional behavior
- 4 cavities within brain, filled with cerebrospinal fluid
- connect with central canal of spinal cord
- provide buoyancy, shock absorption
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Process of bringing multiple sensory processes into one combined perception:
- Seeing (color, shape, movement, shading, size)
- Hearing (loudness, pitch)
- Touch (light touch, pressure, pain)
- No one knows! The “binding problem.”
- No single integration site
- Synchronized activity in multiple brain sites?
