Dorsal View of Brain
Terms
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- Longitudinal Cerebral Fissure
- divides the brain in half longitudinally
- Corpus Callosum
- a large sheet of white matter (axons) that connects the two cerebral hemispheres
- Neocortex
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new cortex
dorsal region - Internal Capsule
- a collection of fibers running beneath the cortex carrying information from the cerebral hemispheres to other parts of the CNS
- Caudate Nucleus
- association between sensory input and motor response
- Fimbria
- White band of fibers along anterior hippocampus that carries information to and from hippocampus
- Lateral Ventricle
- the most anterior part of the brain's ventricular system, which contains the cerebrospinal fluid
- Hippocampus
- memory
- Superior Colliculus
- vision
- Inferior Colliculus
- hearing