The cerebral cortex does not play a major role in
a. short-term m...

Question

The cerebral cortex does not play a major role in
a. short-term memory.
b. long-term memory.
c. circadian rhythm.
d. breath holding.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem. All of the following are functions of the cerebral cortex Except so keep in mind that we're looking for the exception to these functions of the cerebral cortex statement. And so before we jump into the problem, I want you to quickly just be reminded or recall to use the parts or the lobes that make up the cerebral cortex and these are the frontal, the parietal, the temporal and the occipital. And this is important because relating these lobes to each of the functions is going to help us connect them later to the cerebral cortex. So for example we have answer choice is A. And B. Which are short term memory and long term memory. Both of these functions are actually performed by the temporal love. It is the responsible it is responsible of soaring these short and long term memory events. And since the temporal lobe is going to be part of the cerebral cortex, these two functions are going to be performed by it. So these are not the exception that we're looking for. Moving on. We'll have an answer choice C which is going to be speech and speech is actually performed in the frontal lobe is something that we call broadcast area. And since again, since the frontal lobe is going to be part of the cerebral cortex, speech is also not the exception that we are looking for and they all left with answer choice D which is going to be circadian rhythm and I want you to recall these parts of the brain called the hypothalamus And it is involved in certain process related to homo status. So now the circadian rhythm is use changes that occur over a 24 hour cycle in an organism. And these changes help just maintain homeostasis. And so the hypothalamus is going to be very much related to these, and not the cerebral cortex, as the hypothalamus is located outside of it. And so we're going to highlight circadian rhythm as being the final answer or the exception to our question. And so thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video. And I hope to see you on the next one.

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