The cerebral cortex plays a major role in
a. Emotional memory.
b. Hand-eye coordination.
c. Circadian rhythm.
d. Breath holding.

Question

The cerebral cortex plays a major role in

a. Emotional memory.

b. Hand-eye coordination.

c. Circadian rhythm.

d. Breath holding.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem we should have. Following cerebral cortex lobes includes areas involved in hearing, language and visual processing. So let us go over each of the lobes listed so that we may solve this problem. Beginning by answer choice A. So we had that the frontal lobe is generally involved in decision making as we see here. But it also contains something called the primary motor cortex and its primary motor cortex allows us to perform something called voluntary movement. And so although the frontal lobe can perform this action, it is not able to perform hearing or language or any of the actions listed. So we're going to cancel it out and move on to answer choice B, which is going to be the parade earlobe. Now the Parade A lobe contains an area called the primary so much sensory complex and this primary somatosensory complex allows the Parade a lobe to process sensory information. So while the Parade a lobe is able to process what we hear, it is not able to directly here. So we're going to cancel it out as well. And so we move on to the temporal lobe. And this is where it gets really interesting because the temporal lobe contains an area called the primary auditory complex and this primary auditory complex allows the temporal lobe to hear. That's why it's called auditory And so that is how the temporal lobe is able to hear. However, the temporal lobe also contains a part of another area called Guernica area and if you recall from previous videos on the topic where areas allows language comprehension in humans and so that is how the temporal lobe is able to perform this language function as well. And then finally we have visual processing. Well, it turns out that the temporal lobe is involved in something called object recognition and this is how we're actually able to recognize the faces of the people that we've met before. And this is how also the temporal lobe is able to perform this function of visual processing. So we've been able to find that the temporal lobe can perform all the functions listed. So we're going to highlight option C temporal lobe as being our final answer. So thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video. I really hope it helped you.

The cerebral cortex plays a major role in
a. Emotional memory.
b. Hand-eye coordination.
c. Circadian rhythm.
d. Breath holding.

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Key Concepts

Cerebral Cortex

Emotional Memory

Circadian Rhythm