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  2. Temporoparietal junction - Wikipedia

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    The temporoparietal junction (TPJ) is an area of the brain where the temporal and parietal lobes meet, at the posterior end of the lateral sulcus (Sylvian fissure). The TPJ incorporates information from the thalamus and the limbic system as well as from the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. The TPJ also integrates information from ...

  3. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. It controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs, and making ...

  4. Cerebral cortex - Wikipedia

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    The cerebral cortex is the outer covering of the surfaces of the cerebral hemispheres and is folded into peaks called gyri, and grooves called sulci. In the human brain, it is between 2 and 3-4 mm. thick, [8] and makes up 40% of the brain's mass. [2] 90% of the cerebral cortex is the six-layered neocortex whilst the other 10% made up of three ...

  5. Longitudinal fissure - Wikipedia

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    Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy. [edit on Wikidata] The longitudinal fissure (or cerebral fissure, great longitudinal fissure, median longitudinal fissure, interhemispheric fissure) is the deep groove that separates the two cerebral hemispheres of the vertebrate brain. Lying within it is a continuation of the dura mater (one of the meninges ...

  6. Pineal gland - Wikipedia

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    The pineal gland is located in the epithalamus, near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two halves of the thalamus join. [4] [5] It is one of the neuroendocrine secretory circumventricular organs in which capillaries are mostly permeable to solutes in the blood. [6]

  7. Superior temporal sulcus - Wikipedia

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    Superior temporal sulcus. In the human brain, the superior temporal sulcus (STS) is the sulcus separating the superior temporal gyrus from the middle temporal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain. A sulcus (plural sulci) is a deep groove that curves into the largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, and a gyrus (plural gyri) is a ridge that ...

  8. Brain - Wikipedia

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    The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for special senses such as vision, hearing and olfaction. Being the most specialized organ, it is responsible for receiving ...

  9. Outline of the human brain - Wikipedia

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    Trochlear nerve (cranial nerve 4) – eye rotation. Trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve 5) – sensation from the face and certain motor functions such as biting and chewing. Abducens nerve (cranial nerve 6) – certain eye rotation. Facial nerve (cranial nerve 7) – facial expression and taste sensations from the tongue.