Brain Functions
Part of the brain responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.
Cerebellum
Optic Nerves and Chiasm
Broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
Corpus callosum
Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.
Cerebrum
Responsible for many roles in behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage
Frontal Lobes
Part of the brain responsible for conscious perception of visual input.
Part responsible for the conscious perception of touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste
Sensory Cortex
Carries messages from the sensory organs like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers to the cerebrum.
Thalamus
Responsible for visual perception and involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.
Occipital lobe
Point where the spinal cord connects to the brain. This takes in, sends out, and coordinates all of the brain's messages. Also controls the body's vital functions such as heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, and digestion.
Brain Stem
Part that receives information about smells and sends it to the brain.
Olfactory bulbs/tracts
Part of the brain that controls body temperature, thirst, sleep patterns, and other processes in our body that happen automatically.
Hypothalamus
Responsible for the conscious perception of sound
Auditory cortex
Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles, the muscles we can move and control.
Motor Cortex
Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize words and language. Also involved in visual memory.
Temporal lobes
Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory
Parietal lobes