Neuroscience Quiz: The Four F's

The Four F's

• Represents fundamental biological drives: food, fighting, fleeing, and family.

Hippocampus

• Key brain structure involved in memory formation and coding.

Amygdala

• Functions as the emotional center of the brain, processing emotions like fear and pleasure.

Cerebral Hemisphere

• Largest part of the forebrain, divided into left and right hemispheres, responsible for various higher brain functions.

Hypothalamus

• Regulates biological drives and survival needs, including hunger, thirst, sleep, and temperature.

Broca's Area

• Located in the frontal lobe, essential for the production of speech and language processing.

Wernicke's Area

• Found in the temporal lobe, crucial for the comprehension of language and meaningful communication.

Split Brain Research

• Results from surgical procedure that disconnects the two hemispheres of the brain, often to treat severe epilepsy.

Roger Sperry

• Psychologist known for groundbreaking work on split brain surgery, particularly in animal studies, which helped illustrate the specialized functions of each hemisphere.

Soma

• The main cell body of a neuron containing the nucleus and essential organelles for neuron function.