Brain Functions 1
Brain Functions 2
Smell, Taste, Touch
Vision
Hearing
100
Vision
What is the occipital lobe?
100
Largest region of brain that controls voluntary activities, intelligence, learning and judgement
What is the cerebrum?
100
largest sense organ
What is the skin?
100
chamber posterior to cornea
What is the aqueous humor?
100
3 tiny bones that send vibrations to the oval window
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
200
Hearing & smell
What is the temporal lobe?
200
Reading and speech
What is the parietal lobe?
200
Relationship between touch sensitivity and touch receptors
What is the more sensitive the higher density if touch receptors?
200
Helps the eye to focus to near/distant objects
What is the lens?
200
Where sound first enters the ear
What is the auditory canal?
300
Evaluates consequences, judgments, planning
What is the frontal lobe?
300
Process info from sense organs and controls body movements
What is the cerebral cortex?
300
Receptor found throughout the skin and hypothalamus
What are thermoreceptors?
300
Lines with rods and cones
What is the retina?
300
Tiny hair cells here are pushed back and forth…sending nerve impulses to brain which processes them as sound
What is the cochlea?
400
Emotion, behavior, memory
What is the limbic system?
400
control center for hunger, thirst, fatigue, body temp
What is the hypothalamus?
400
Sense organs found in mouth, most on tongue whose cells detect salty, sweet, bitter, AND savory (or umami)
What are taste buds?
400
Site of sharpest vision
What is the fovea?
400
Eardrum
What is the tympanum?
500
Receives info about muscle and joint position, sensory inputs, allows coordination and balance of muscles
What is the cerebellum?
500
Vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, alertness, temperature regulation
What is the midbrain of the brain stem?
500
Structure at the base of the forebrain that relays the signal to other brain areas for additional processing of smell
What is the olfactory bulb?
500
Cause of your blind spot
What is NO photoreceptors back of eye where optic nerve passes?
500
As head changes position fluid moves causing hairs lining these canals to bend, sending impulses to brain to detect motion and position
What are the semicircular canals?
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