Parts of the Brain 1
The largest part of the brain
What is the Cerebrum?
Processes your left field of vision and controls your left side?
What is the right Cerebral Hemisphere?
Processes your right field of vision and controls your right side
What is the Left Cerebral Hemisphere?
Processes emotions and triggers the fight or flight system
What is the Amygdala?
Part of your brain controlling word and speech production
Processes sensory input for touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste
What is the Sensory Cortex?
Receives and processes sound input
What is the Auditory Cortex?
Controls muscle movement
What is the Motor Cortex?
Receives and processes visual input
What is the Visual Cortex?
Part of your brain controlling your understanding of spoken and written language
What is Wernicke's Area?
Responsible for visual perception and visual short-term memory
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Responsible for planning, mood, emotions, social interactions, attention, memory retrieval and storage
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Responsible for language, memory, spatial awareness
What is the Parietal Lobe?
Responsible for word recognition and understanding as well as hearing and smell
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Part of the brain that gets severed in a split-brain procedure
What is the Corpus Callosum?
Controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns,
What is the Hypothalamus?
Controls heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, and digestion
What is the Brain Stem?
Carries visual input from the eyes to the brain
What is the Optic Nerves?
Responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.
What is the Cerebellum?
Part of your brain that integrates and processes sensory, and lingual information
What is the Angular Gyrus
What is the thin layer that covers the cerebrum, means “bark“ in Latin called?
What is the Cerebral Cortex
Relays sensory input to the different parts of the brain
What is the Thalamus?
Carries messages from the brain to the body.
Spinal Cord
Controls growth, metabolism, digestion, sexual maturity, respond to stress
What is the Pituitary Gland ?
List the order of operations in your brain that happens when you see a word and then see it
Visual cortex to the Angular Gyrus to Wernicke's Area to Broca's Area to the Motor Cortex