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Primary motor cortex
- located in the frontal lobe of the brain
- controls movements
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Sensory Cortex
- located in the perietal lobe
- manages all senses except for smell
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Perietal Lobe
- regulates sensory information and sensation
- temp
- pressure
- pain
- everything but smell
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Frontal lobe
- judgement
- descision making
- planning
- personality
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Occipital Lobe
- where visial information is processed
- located in the back of the brain
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Temporal Lobe
- Located on the sides of the brain
- hearing and also tied to speech
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Brocca's Area
- located in the LEFT frontal lobe
- if damaged you can't really write or speak well at all causing expressive aphasia
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Wernike's Area
- located in the LEFT temporal lobe
- if damaged, one loses comprehension, causing reflective aphasia
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Reflective Aphasia
- a loss of comprehension of language
- through damage of wernike's area
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Expressive Aphasia
- although still able to understand languse and information, one loses the ability to write or speak
- through damage to Brocca's area
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Angular Gyrus
- transforms visual info into auditory code
- located in the LEFT perietal lobe
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