NR546 Week 1: test your knowledge quiz &
Ans/ 2024-2025.
broca's area - Answer: speech production
temporal lobe - Answer: involves object identification and auditory signals
cerebellum - Answer: coordination
wernicke's area - Answer: speech comprehension
occipital lobe - Answer: primary visual area
parietal lobe - Answer: keeps us alert to what is going on around us
sensory cortex - Answer: pain, heat, and other sensations
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, motor cortex - Answer: movement
hippocampus - Answer: involved in both memory and anxiety
nucleus accumbens - Answer: involved in the reward process
thalamus - Answer: involved in sensory organ and motor command processing
striatum - Answer: involved in complex motor actions, also links cognition to motor actions
limbic system - Answer: includes circuits that are associated with pleasure and reward
basal ganglia - Answer: group of structures involved in voluntary motor movements
amygdala - Answer: involved in emotional regulation and perception of odors
corpus callosum - Answer: controls the communication between the two brain hemispheres
white matter - Answer: contains nerve fibers that connect neurons from different regions into
functional circuits
grey matter - Answer: contains nerve cells and dendrites
brain tissue - Answer: made up of grey matter and white matter
dorsal striatum - Answer: involved in complex motor actions and linkage of cognition to motor
actions
-main input area for basal ganglia
*activated when anticipating or engaging in pleasure
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