The reticular formation has long tracts of fibers that run to the ____________, which channels incoming sensory information to the appropriate area of the cerebral cortex, where that information is processed.

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• Thalamus is a __________________ structure that processes sensory information from all of the senses, except smell, and relays it to the cerebral cortex.
• _________________ carries sensory information via afferent nerve fibers from receptors throughout the body to the brain and conducts information via efferent nerve fibers from the brain to muscles and glands.
• _________________ is an area on each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex located above the temporal lobe that processes somatic sensations.
• The __________ area in the brain acts as a final "switching station" for most incoming sensory information.
• -------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell
• __________________ is the nearly symmetrical left and right halves of the cerebral cortex.
• ________________ is the largest lobe of the cerebral cortex.
• -----------------fibers connecting the cerebral hemispheres, such as those of the corpus collosum and anterior and posterior
• Sickled -shaped band of crossing nerve fibers that connect the cerebral hemispheres, is
• In the brain and spinal cord, areas that are mostly axons are called ___________ which is possible to differentiate pathways or tracts of these axons.