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Brain Structure
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Introductory brain biology; structure, function and fun facts
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1
What is the function of the frontal lobe?
Associated with higher mental abilities
Associated with temperature and touch
Associated with speech and hearing
Associatied with vision and seeing
2
What is the function of the brainstem?
Personality
Relays messages between the forebrain and the hindbrain
Automatic survival functions
Decision making
3
Which species has the greatest brain weight?
Cat
Giraffe
Human
Cow
4
Describe the cortex
Tastes like a walnut
Wrinkled like a walnut
What is a walnut?
As hard as a walnut
5
What are the two parts of the central nervous system?
Brain and Spine
Forebrain and Hindbrain
Senses and Nerves
Autonomic and Somatic
6
We have more brain cells as a newborn baby than we will ever have again.
False
True
7
Which part of the brain connects the left and right hemispheres?
corpus callosum
midbrain
cerebral cortex
medulla
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Damage to the parietal lobe could cause...
Increased risk taking
Visual confusion
Inability to understand speech
Loss of touch sensation
9
The pathologist who did Einstein's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.
False
True
10
Your brain is fully developed by the time you are 18.
False
True
