Lobes of the Brain
Lower Brain Areas
Limbic System
Miscellaneous
100
This lobe is responsible for decision making, personality, and executive/cognitive control.
What is Frontal Lobe?
100
This area is responsible for breathing and basic body functions.
What is the Medulla?
100
This area is responsible for memory encoding.
What is Hippocampus?
100
This "brain matter" is made up of cell bodies.
What is Gray Matter?
200
This lobe is responsible for hearing and auditory processing.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
200
This area is responsible for motor coordination and balance.
What is Cerebellum?
200

This area is responsible for fear, emotional memories, and "fight or flight" responses.

What is Amygdala?

200
This is the "bridge" of axon fibers between the two hemispheres.
What is Corpus Collosum?
300
This lobe is responsible for visual processing.
What is Occipital Lobe?
300
This brain area is the "relay system" and sends incoming information to the proper spot.
What is Thalamus?
300
This area regulates hunger, thirst, temperature, hormones, etc
What is hypothalamus?
300

This is a ridge in the brain

What is Gyri?

400

This lobe is responsible for spatial awareness.

What is Parietal Lobe?

400
This brain area is located in the brainstem and is responsible for arousal and sleep.
What is Reticular Formation?
400

This area is important in the regulation of multiple hormones.

What is Pituitary Gland?

400
This is a groove in the brain.
What is Sulci?
500
This lobe is the oftentimes-referred-to-as "5th lobe".
What is Insular Cortex?
500
Cerebellum means this in Latin
What is Little Brain?
500
This is the literal translation of "Hippocampus".
What is Seahorse?
500

The technical term for brain freeze

What is a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia?

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