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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Cerebral Cortex that functions to direct movements toward a goal or to perform a task - such as grasping an object - lying posterior to the central sulcus and beneath the parietal bone at the top of the skull.
Parietal Lobe
Embodied Consciousness
Cerebral Cortex
Cerebrum
2. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Culture
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Common Ancestor
Limbic system
3. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Limbic system
Sympathetic Division
Chordate
Brainstem
4. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Mind-Body Problem
Hindbrain
Hypothalamus
Neuroplasticity
5. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Nerve
Hemisphere
White Matter
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
6. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Occipital Lobe
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Frontal Lobe
Nerve
7. Areas of the nervous system composed predominantly of cell bodies and blood vessels that function either to collect and modify information or to support this activity.
Gray Matter
Afferent
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Mind
8. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Nerve Set
Law of Bell and Magendie
Hemispherectomy
9. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Occipital Lobe
Corpus Callosum
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Cerebellum
10. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Hindbrain
Tract
Hemispherectomy
Neuron
11. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Reticular Formation
Tegmentum
Materialism
Mentalism
12. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Embodied Consciousness
Hemisphere
Neuron
Tegmentum
13. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Alzheimer's Disease
White Matter
Hemisphere
Cerebrum
14. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Clinical Trial
Cladogram
Common Ancestor
Reticular Formation
15. Disparate forebrain structures lying between the neocortex and the brainstem that form a functional system controlling affective and motivated behaviors and certain forms of memory; includes cingulate cortex - amygdala - hippocampus - among other str
Meninges
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Limbic system
Hindbrain
16. Part of the autonomic nervous system; acts in opposition to the sympathetic division- for example - preparing the body to rest and digest by reversing the alarm response or stimulating digestion.
Parasympathetic Division
Materialism
Hypothalamus
Afferent
17. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Species
Meninges
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Limbic system
18. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
White Matter
Afferent
Basal ganglia
19. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Parasympathetic Division
Diencephalon
Excitation
Frontal Lobe
20. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Basal ganglia
Hominid
Bilateral Symmetry
Vertebrae
21. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Limbic system
Species-typical behavior
Hemisphere
Tourettes's Syndrome
22. Clear solution of sodium chloride and other salts that fills the ventricles inside the brain and circulates around the brain and spinal cord beneath the arachnoid layer in the subarachnoid space.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Hominid
Cerebrum
23. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Natural Selection
Diencephalon
Radiator Hypothesis
Sulcus (Sulci)
24. Cortex that functions in connection with hearing - language - and musical abilities and lies below the lateral fissure - beneath the temporal bone at the side of the lobe.
Meninges
Brainstem
Temporal Lobe
Tegmentum
25. Part of the central nervous system encased within the vertebrae (spinal column) tat provides most of the connections between the brain and the rest of the body.
Excitation
Hemispherectomy
Hindbrain
Spinal Cord
26. Major structure of the brainstem specialized for coordinating and learning skilled movements. In large-brained animals - it may also have a role in the coordination of other mental processes.
Cerebellum
Cerebral Cortex
Limbic system
Tectum
27. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Parasympathetic Division
Tourettes's Syndrome
Hominid
Mentalism
28. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Temporal Lobe
Mind-Body Problem
Reticular Formation
Hominid
29. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Thalamus
Orienting movement
Stroke
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
30. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Neuroplasticity
Midbrain
31. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Hindbrain
Species
Gyrus (Gyri)
Cranial nerve
32. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Occipital Lobe
Materialism
Hemispherectomy
White Matter
33. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Forebrain
Cerebrum
Reticular Formation
34. Part of the autonomic nervous system; arouses the body for action - such as mediating the involuntary fight-or-flight response to alarm by increasing hear rate and blood pressure.
Species-typical behavior
Nerve
Sympathetic Division
Gray Matter
35. Simple nervous system that has no brain or spinal cord but consists of neurons that receive sensory information and connect directly to other neurons that move muscles.
Materialism
Nerve Set
Mentalism
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
36. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Midbrain
Dermatome
Excitation
37. Process in which maturation is delayed - and so an adult retains infant characteristics; idea derived from the observation that newly evolved species resemble the young of their common ancestors.
Neuron
Clinical Trial
Neoteny
Hindbrain
38. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Excitation
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Tourettes's Syndrome
39. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Cranial nerve
Materialism
Mind-Body Problem
Dualism
40. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Tract
Corpus Callosum
Species-typical behavior
41. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Gray Matter
Corpus Callosum
Clinical Trial
Afferent
42. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Corpus Callosum
Common Ancestor
Brainstem
Ventricle
43. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Tract
Stroke
Mind-Body Problem
Corpus Callosum
44. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Tectum
Clinical Trial
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Dualism
45. Cerebral Cortex often generally characterized as performing the brain's 'executive' functions - such as decision making - lying anterior to the central sulcus and beneath the frontal bone of the skull.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Frontal Lobe
White Matter
46. Part of the PNS that includes the cranial and spinal nerves to and from the muscles - joints - and skin that produce movement - transmit incoming sensory input - and inform the CNS about the position and movement of body parts.
Mentalism
Vertebrae
Parietal Lobe
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
47. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Species
Vertebrae
Sympathetic Division
Cladogram
48. Darwin's theory for explaining how new species evolve and how existing species change over time. Differential success in the reproduction of different characteristics (phenotypes) results from the interaction of organisms with their environment.
Species
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Natural Selection
Sulcus (Sulci)
49. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Tegmentum
Meninges
Materialism
Cranial nerve
50. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Embodied Consciousness
Mind
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Basal ganglia