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    The document summarizes several key functions of the higher cerebral functions including language skills, learning and memory, the electroencephalogram (EEG), and sleep. Specifically, it notes that the left hemisphere is dominant for language in most right-handed individuals, learning involves both short-term and long-term memory which are based on repetition and reinforcement, the EEG measures electrical brain activity through scalp electrodes and shows different wave patterns depending on neuronal activity levels, and sleep involves slow wave and REM sleep which are controlled by the reticular activating system.

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    The document summarizes several key functions of the higher cerebral functions including language skills, learning and memory, the electroencephalogram (EEG), and sleep. Specifically, it notes that the left hemisphere is dominant for language in most right-handed individuals, learning involves both short-term and long-term memory which are based on repetition and reinforcement, the EEG measures electrical brain activity through scalp electrodes and shows different wave patterns depending on neuronal activity levels, and sleep involves slow wave and REM sleep which are controlled by the reticular activating system.

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    The document summarizes several key functions of the higher cerebral functions including language skills, learning and memory, the electroencephalogram (EEG), and sleep. Specifically, it notes that the left hemisphere is dominant for language in most right-handed individuals, learning involves both short-term and long-term memory which are based on repetition and reinforcement, the EEG measures electrical brain activity through scalp electrodes and shows different wave patterns depending on neuronal activity levels, and sleep involves slow wave and REM sleep which are controlled by the reticular activating system.

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    higher cerebral

    functions

    by Jingying T. A
    Department of
    Physiology
     Be responsible for thoughts and
    emotions
     Store and retrieve memories
     Generate sense
     Be able to communicate
    1 language skills

     dominant hemisphere:
    the left cerebral hemisphere, in 90%
    right-handed people and 70% left-handed
    persons.

     Specifically:
    Broca’s area: speech production.
    Wernicke’s area :
    understand spoken languages.
    Aphasia:
     expressive or motor aphasia:

    can’t produce speech while retaining


    comprehension of language.
     receptive or sensory aphasia:

    inability to understand language.


    2 learning and memory

     learning: any change in behaviour that


    results from previous experience.

     based on memory:
    short-term memory
    long-term memory
     memory, derived from:
    repeated rehearsal of information
    eg. practising motor skills
    revising previously studied
    materials
     mechanisms of memory:
    synaptic facility: transmitter release
    may be enhanced, making future
    activation of that pathway easier.
    neural plasticity: eventually
    anatomical changes happens, perhaps
    involving an increase in the number or
    size of synapses.
    3 the electroencephalogram
    (EEG)

     EEG:
    The electrical activity within cerebral
    neurons leads to surface potentials,
    which may be detected using scalp
    electrodes. And the resulting
    recording is called ~.

    some what analogous to the ECG.


    wave patterns:

    as neuronal activity increases, EEG


    becomes more irregular
    (desynchronized), with a rise in the
    frequency and a fall in the amplitude.
     sleep: loss of consciousness, and reversible.

    slow wave sleep: (SWS) low frequency delta wave. at


    the same time, leads to reductions in blood pressure,
    respiration, metabolic rate and gastrointestinal
    activity.
    paradoxical / rapid eye movement sleep: (REM)
    dreaming, high frequency beta wave, with variable
    heart rate and respiration, irregular muscle
    movements and general reduction in muscle tone.
     control of sleep:
    reticular activating system

    when excited by sensory or motor


    activity, reduce drowsiness.
     sleep deprivation:

    tend to produce extreme disturbances of


    thinking and emotion.

    but the “why” is not answered.


    sleep waves of dolphine

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