Brain Lobes
This lobe controls decision-making, planning, and voluntary movement.
Frontal Lobe
This part of the brainstem controls breathing and heart rate.
Medulla
This cortex controls voluntary movement.
Motor Cortex
This part processes emotions like fear and anger.
Amygdala
This “little brain” coordinates balance and movement.
Cerebellum
This lobe processes touch, pressure, and spatial awareness.
Parietal Lobe
This part of the brainstem regulates breathing and sleep.
Pons
This cortex processes body sensations like touch, temperature, and pain.
Sensory Cortex
This part is essential for making and storing memories.
Hippocampus
This part carries messages between the brain and body.
Spinal Cord
This lobe processes hearing and helps with language and memory.
Temporal Lobe
This part of the brainstem regulates breathing and sleep.
Reticular Formation
This area in the left frontal lobe produces speech.
Broca's Area
This system as a whole regulates emotions, memory, and motivation.
Limbic System
Damage here might make it hard to form new memories but old memories remain.
Hippocampus
This lobe is responsible for vision.
Occipital Lobe
This “relay station” directs sensory signals (except smell) to the cortex.
Thalamus
This area in the left temporal lobe allows understanding of spoken and written language.
Wernicke's Area
This structure connects the two hemispheres, allowing communication between them.
Corpus Callosum
Damage here might make a person unable to speak clearly, though they still understand language.
Broca's Area
This lobe helps regulate personality, problem-solving, and impulse control.
Frontal Lobe
This “relay station” directs sensory signals (except smell) to the cortex.
Thalamus
This outer layer of the brain is responsible for higher-level thinking, perception, and decision-making.
Cerebral Cortex
This “master gland” controls hormone release and works with the hypothalamus
Pituitary gland
Damage here might make a person speak fluently but without making sense, because they cannot understand language.
Wernicke's Area