Regions
The four lobes of the brain
What is frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal?
the brain is divided into what two hemispheres
What is left and right?
Which part of the brain is responsible for maintaining balance and posture?
What is cerebellum?
Responsible for hearing, selective listening, ad language
What is temporal lobe?
Verbal memory, motor speech, understanding of written and spoken language
What is left hemisphere?
Contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus
What is the diencephalon?
controls emotion expression, problem solving, memory, language, and judgement
What is frontal lobe?
Memory for shapes, musical ability, recognition of faces
What is right hemisphere?
Midbrain, medulla oblongata, and pons are within this region
What is brainstem?
processes information as well as interpret visual information and processing language
What is parietal lobe?
How many nerves make up the brain?
A) 2 million
B) more than 100 billion
C) 12 billion
D) 100 million
What is B
Secretion of melatonin and hormones by the pineal gland
What is epithalamus?
The following are all apart of which lobe?
somatosensory cortex
postcentral gyrus
somatosensory association area
primary sensory area
What is parietal lobe?
True or False?
Broca's area does not control speech, language recognition and facial nerves
What is false?