Cognitive neuroscience summary

Cognitive neuroscience summary frontal lobe - answermass of cortex anterior to central sulcus and dorsal to the sylvian fissue; contains the motor and prefrontal cortex parietal lobe - answerCortical lobe located posterior to central sulcus anterior to occipital lobe, superior to posterior temporal cortex; contains many neurons, including somatosensory cortex, gustatory cortex, and parietal association cortex which are all involved in orientation, attention, and representation of space temporal lobe - answerlateral ventral part of cerebral cortex bounded superiorly by sylvian fissue and psoteriorly by the anterior edge of the occipital lobe and ventral portion of the parietal lobe -ventromedial: hippocampal complex, amgdala -lateral neocortical regions: higher order vision, mental respresentations of visual world, linguistic representations -superior (in sylvian fissure): auditory complex occipital lobe - answercortical lobe located at posterior of the cerebral cortex that primarily contains neurons involved in visual information processing skull - answercranium Meninges - answerthree protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord dura matter - answeroutermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord arachnoid matter - answerweblike middle layer of the three meninges pia matter - answerInnermost layer of the meninges. Adheres directly to the brain and is made up of capillaries and supporting tissue. cerebral cortex - answerlayered sheet of neurons that overlies the forebrain; consists of neural subdivisions interconnected with pther cortical areas, subcortical structures, and the cerebellum and spinal cortex white matter - answermyelinated axons corpus callosum - answerfiber system composed of axons that connect the cortex and cerebral hemispheres; integrates motor and sensory info between the two hemispheres central sulcus - answerdeep fold between the frontal and parietal cortex that separates the primary motor cortex from the primary somatosensory cortex