The __________________ lobe is at the back of the brain and contains the primary visual cortex and is where visual information is received.

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• The __________________ lobe is near the temples and contains the primary auditory cortex and is where the auditory information is received.
• __________ is the thick nerve that exits from the back of the eye and carries visual information to the visual cortex in the brain.
• The brain structure that is part of the brain stem and is an important relay station that helps coordiante auditory and visual information before sending it on to higher brain centers is called the ___________________.
• _________________ is an area on each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex located above the temporal lobe that processes somatic sensations.
• ________________ is the largest lobe of 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.
• 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.
• Lesions in the primary motor cortex produce ----------and lesions in the other areas involved in movement produce a variety------
• The ___________________ lobe is involved in processing somatosensory information, such as touch, temperature, body position and temperature.
• The concept that phylogenetically newer and more complex parts of the brain take over, or dominate, the functioning of older parts of the brain, is termed as: