Hemispheres
Deals with creativity
Right brain
Controls memory
hippocampus
Controls reading and seeing
Occipital
detects odor in the nose
olfactory bulb
a cell designed to transmit information to other nerve cells, muscle, or gland cells
neuron cell
The analytical/logical brain
left brain
Controls balance
cerebellum
Deals with smell, motor skills and critical thinking
Frontal
term to cover all senses
sensory cortex
insulates neuron cells
glial cells
recognizes patterns
right brain
Connects brain to spine
Brain stem
Deals with fears, listening, and speech
Temporal
controls breathing and sends signals to other brain structures
pons
concerned with the learning of languages
wernickes area
one hemisphere being dominate on a certain task
lateralization
Controls hormones
Pituitary gland
Deals with touch, language and taste
Parietal
initiates muscular activity
motor cortex
production of speech
brocas area
joins the left and right brain together
corpus collosum
involves memory
amygdala
includes the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus
limbic system
implicates complex behavior and your personality
prefrontal cortex