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Here are the answers to the quiz questions: 1. The left hemisphere of the cerebrum is dominant in hand use and language in about 92% of people. 2. The left hemisphere controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills. 3. The four lobes are: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal.

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Right Brain - Left Brain

Here are the answers to the quiz questions: 1. The left hemisphere of the cerebrum is dominant in hand use and language in about 92% of people. 2. The left hemisphere controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills. 3. The four lobes are: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal.

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The brain is composed of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem

The brain has three main parts: the cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem.
Cerebrum: is the largest part of the brain and is composed of right and left
hemispheres. It performs higher functions like interpreting touch, vision and
hearing, as well as speech, reasoning, emotions, learning, and fine control of
movement.
Cerebellum: is located under the cerebrum. Its function is to coordinate muscle
movements, maintain posture, and balance.
Brainstem: acts as a relay center connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum to the
spinal cord. It performs many automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate,
body temperature, wake and sleep cycles, digestion, sneezing, coughing,
vomiting, and swallowing.

Right brain – left brain


The cerebrum is divided into two halves: the right and left hemispheres. They are
joined by a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum that transmits messages
from one side to the other. Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the
body. If a stroke occurs on the right side of the brain, your left arm or leg may be
weak or paralyzed.
Not all functions of the hemispheres are shared. In general, the left hemisphere
controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. The right hemisphere
controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills. The left hemisphere is
dominant in hand use and language in about 92% of people.
Lobes of the brain
The cerebral hemispheres have distinct fissures, which divide the brain into lobes.
Each hemisphere has 4 lobes: frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital (Fig. 3).
Each lobe may be divided, once again, into areas that serve very specific
functions. It’s important to understand that each lobe of the brain does not
function alone. There are very complex relationships between the lobes of the
brain and between the right and left hemispheres.
The cerebrum is divided into four lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal.

Frontal lobe

 Personality, behavior, emotions


 Judgment, planning, problem solving
 Speech: speaking and writing (Broca’s area)
 Body movement (motor strip)
 Intelligence, concentration, self awareness

Parietal lobe

 Interprets language, words


 Sense of touch, pain, temperature (sensory strip)
 Interprets signals from vision, hearing, motor, sensory and memory
 Spatial and visual perception

Occipital lobe

 Interprets vision (color, light, movement)


Temporal lobe

 Understanding language (Wernicke’s area)


 Memory
 Hearing
 Sequencing and organization

Language
In general, the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for language and
speech and is called the "dominant" hemisphere. The right hemisphere plays a
large part in interpreting visual information and spatial processing. In about one
third of people who are left-handed, speech function may be located on the right
side of the brain. Left-handed people may need special testing to determine if
their speech center is on the left or right side prior to any surgery in that area.
Aphasia is a disturbance of language affecting speech production, comprehension,
reading or writing, due to brain injury – most commonly from stroke or trauma.
The type of aphasia depends on the brain area damaged.
Broca’s area: is an area in the frontal lobe of the brain that is related to the
production of speech. The area is named after Pierre Paul Broca who noticed an
impaired ability to produce speech in two patients who had sustained injury to
the region.
lies in the left frontal lobe If this area is damaged, one may have difficulty moving
the tongue or facial muscles to produce the sounds of speech. The person can still
read and understand spoken language but has difficulty in speaking and writing
(i.e. forming letters and words, doesn't write within lines) – called Broca's
aphasia.
Wernicke's area: is an area in the cerebral cortex related to speech and is involved
in both spoken and written language. This area was named after Carl Wernicke, a
German neurologist who discovered that the area is related to how words and
syllables are pronounced.

lies in the left temporal lobe (Fig 3). Damage to this area causes Wernicke's
aphasia. The individual may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, add
unnecessary words, and even create new words. They can make speech sounds,
however they have difficulty understanding speech and are therefore unaware of
their mistakes.
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Quiz

1. What part of the cerebrum is dominant in hand use and language


2. What part of the cerebrum controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and
writing. The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and
musical skills
3-6 Give the four lobes

Game

The Stroop Effect: Naming the Color but Not the Word

Instruction- Quickly say aloud what color you see in every word, NOT the word
you read.

Go from left to right, from top to down.

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