Thalamus is a __________________ structure that processes sensory information from all of the senses, except smell, and relays it to the cerebral cortex.

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• The structure that identifies and integrates sensory information for all the senses except smell and relays it to higher brain centers is the ____________________.
• 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.
• -------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell
• _________________ is an area on each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex located above the temporal lobe that processes somatic sensations.
• --------suggested a circuit from the entorbinal cortex to the hippocampus, then to hypothalamus via the fornix, from there to the anterior thalamus, and finally to the cingulated gyrus involved in emotional experience.
• __________________ is the nearly symmetrical left and right halves of the cerebral cortex.
• ________________ is the largest lobe of the cerebral cortex.
• Olfaction (smell) differs from other sensory modalities because it
• ___________________ is based on the idea that sensory information can be detected by some means other than through the normal processes of sensation.
• _________________ 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.