Your best friends from high school invite you over for pizza and a friendly game of cards. Name six parts of the brain and explain the role each plays during your evening of food, fellowship, and playing cards
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include six of the following structures.
? Medulla—keeps your heart beating and keeps you breathing.
? Nucleus accumbens—involved in the rewarding feeling of winning a hand.
? Reticular formation—keeps you awake.
? Frontal lobe—helps you make decisions during the card game and control voluntary movements.
? Hypothalamus—lets you know when you are hungry and when you are full.
? Cerebellum—helps you maintain your balance and move about in a coordinated way.
? Thalamus—sends sensory information to the appropriate areas of cortex for analysis.
? Hippocampus—helps you form new memories of the evening.
? Broca's area in frontal lobe—allows you to speak to your friends.
? Wernicke's area in temporal lobe—allows you to understand when your friends speak to you.
? Visual cortex in occipital lobe—allows you to see your cards, your friends, and the rest of your surroundings.
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