AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This transmits information between the cerebral hemispheres.
A
corpus callosum
B
medulla
C
cerebellum
D
reticular formation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The hemispheres are connected by a large C-shaped fiber bundle, the corpus callosum, which carries information between the two hemispheres.

Detailed explanation-2: -The corpus callosum is a large bundle of more than 200 million myelinated nerve fibers that connect the two brain hemispheres, permitting communication between the right and left sides of the brain.

Detailed explanation-3: -The two hemispheres in your brain are connected by a thick bundle of nerve fibres called the corpus callosum that ensures both sides of the brain can communicate and send signals to each other.

Detailed explanation-4: -The corpus callosum (Latin for “tough body"), also callosal commissure, is a wide, thick nerve tract, consisting of a flat bundle of commissural fibers, beneath the cerebral cortex in the brain. The corpus callosum is only found in placental mammals.

Detailed explanation-5: -The corpus callosum is the largest of multiple commissural connections between the two sides of the diencephalon and telencephalon and carries most of the axonal connections from the neocortex to the opposite neocortex.

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