Cerebral Cortex

4 Written Questions

1. Areas of the cortex involved in learning, thought, memory and language.
2. A language disorder characterized by difficulty comprehending the meaning of spoken language
3. Involved with vision.
4. Involved in decision making, problem solving, and planning. Higher mental functions

4 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Involved with memory, emotion, hearing, and language. Hearing or auditory area.
   1. Frontal Lobe
   2. Occipital lobe
   3. Parietal lobe
   4. Temporal lobe
2. Thick band of neurons that connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres.
   1. Temporal lobe
   2. Corpus callosum
   3. Frontal Lobe
   4. Occipital lobe
3. Controls body's voluntary muscle movements. Sends commands to the peripheral nervous system.
   1. Frontal Lobe
   2. Temporal lobe
   3. Motor cortex
   4. Somatosensory cortex
4. A language disorder characterized by slow, laborious speech.
   1. Wernicke's Aphasia
   2. Broca's aphasia
   3. Aphasia
   4. Association areas

3 True/False Questions

1. Parietal lobe → Involved in decision making, problem solving, and planning. Higher mental functions

   True        False

2. Aphasia → Involved in the reception and processing of sensory information from the body.

   True        False

3. Somatosensory cortex → Controls body's voluntary muscle movements. Sends commands to the peripheral nervous system.

   True        False