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Amygdala

________- understand and remember emotional situations, recognize emotional expressions in others.

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Ventral nerve cords

________ have ganglia in each segment.

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Brain

________ has two halves or hemispheres with four lobes each.

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nervous system

All animals have a(n) ________ except for sponges.

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Nerve cords

________ extend length of animal connected by transverse nerves.

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Sensory neurons

________ detect internal body conditions.

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PNS

________: all neurons that are outside of the CNS.

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Hippocampus

________- establish memories for spatial locations, facts, and sequences of events.

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Somatic

________ nervous system: primary function to sense external environment and control skeletal muscles.

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Corpus callosum

________: connects the cerebral hemispheres.

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Autonomic nervous system

________: regulates homeostasis and organ function.

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Interneurons

________ or Association Neurons: form interconnections between other neurons.

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Pineal gland

________ produces melatonin.

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cardiovascular function

Controls heart rate, breathing, ________, digestion, swallowing, and vomiting.

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Motor neurons

________ control skeletal muscles.

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Temporal lobe

________: language, hearing, and some types of memory.

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Neurons

________ connect to each other in a network.

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Sensory neurons

________ receive stimuli- heat, vision, smell, taste, hearing, touch- and transmit to CNS.

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Sensory Neurons

________: detect information from the outside world or internal body conditions.

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Trend toward cephalization

increasingly complex brain in the head

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Insects

Drosophila

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Well

developed brain with subdivisions

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CNS

brain and nerve cord

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PNS

all neurons that are outside of the CNS

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Somatic nervous system

primary function to sense external environment and control skeletal muscles

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Autonomic nervous system

regulates homeostasis and organ function

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Involuntary

usually cannot be consciously controlled

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Brainstem

medulla oblongata, pons and midbrain

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Frontal lobe

conscious thought and social awareness

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Parietal lobe

receives and interprets sensory input from visual pathways and somatic pathways

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Occipital lobe

vision and color recognition

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Temporal lobe

language, hearing, and some types of memory

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Corpus callosum

connects the cerebral hemispheres

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Left hemisphere

understanding language and producing speech

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Right hemisphere

nonverbal memories, recognizing faces

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amygdala

understand and remember emotional situations, recognize emotional expressions in others

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hippocampus

establish memories for spatial locations, facts, and sequences of events

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Sensory Neurons

detect information from the outside world or internal body conditions

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Afferent neurons

transmit to CNS

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Motor Neurons

send signals away from CNS (efferent neurons) to elicit response

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Interneurons or Association Neurons

form interconnections between other neurons

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