The Brain Quiz

The association areas of the cerebral cortex

	are largest in the brains of lower animals.
	are directly related to such functions as thinking, language, and memoryand include Broca's and Wernicke's areas.
	process simple sensory information, like light, sound, and touch.
	are not essential to the performance of higher mental functions.

	an increase in the brain tissue devoted to the cerebral cortex.
	corticalization of the peripheral nervous system.
	a decrease in the size of cortical association areas.
	a diminishing importance of the corpus callosum.

	somesthetic area of the parietal lobe.
	association cortex of the occipital lobes.
	interpretative cortex of the temporal lobes.
	motor cortex of the frontal lobes.