Infant Brain Development

Part of the brain that controls muscular coordination, balance, and posture.

The links between the different neurons in the brain are referred to as _____________?

What is the connection between neurons that transmits instructions from the cell body to another neuron?

Which lobe controls object classification, spelling, and knowledge of numbers?

Receives information from the senses and directs motor activities.

Which lobe controls vision and color identification?

Transmits information from the body to the brain and from the brain to the body.

The tiny gap between the dendrites that transmit messages from one neuron to another are called?

Secretes hormones that control growth, metabolism, and sexual development.

What occurs when neural pathways are not used and therefor fade away?

The thalamus is the part of the brain that controls sensory information.

Which lobe controls memory, speech, and facial recognition?

A baby's cortex develops very quickly during the first year of life.

Controls involuntary activities such as breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure.

Which of these is not a lobe in the brain?

Reflexes are planned actions that come from learned responses.

What chemical acts as a messenger between neurons?

How many lobes does the brain have?

What is the chemical released by the axon?

A branchlike feature at the end of each axon that receives the electrical messages from other neurons is known as?

Which lobe controls thinking, problem solving, and decision making?

What part of the brain's cerebrum allows a baby to learn complex activities?

What part of the brain controls involuntary functions, such as breathing and blood pressure?

Which of these is not a part of a nerve cell?

Relays sensory information from other parts of the brain to the cerebral cortex.

Once a baby's brain is organized in a specific way, this organization cannot be changed.

Controls such functions as speech, memory, and problem solving.

A baby's brain contains billions of nerve cells, also called _________?

This controls simple reflexes that do not involve the brain.

Why is play important to a baby?

What is the fatty substance that helps in transmitting information between neurons?