Brain Basics
Keeps you breathing and your heart beating while asleep
What is the Brainstem?
You use this lobe when you see your phone screen.
What is the occipital lobe?
This area controls voluntary movements like raising your hand.
What is the motor cortex?
This area allows you to speak to your friends.
What is Broca’s area
This structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
Wakes you up when your alarm goes off
What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS)?
This lobe helps you hear music and remember lyrics.
What is the temporal lobe?
This area processes touch, pain, and temperature.
What is the somatosensory cortex?
This area allows you to understand what your teacher is saying.
What is Wernicke’s area?
These are the two halves of the brain.
What are the hemispheres?
Controls balance when you play sports
What is the cerebellum?
This lobe controls personality, decision-making, and planning.
What is the frontal lobe?
The right side of your brain controls movement on this side of your body.
What is the left side of the body?
Damage to this area means you can understand language but struggle to speak.
What is Broca’s area?
This type of research showed that each hemisphere can function independently.
What is split-brain research?
This structure increases your heart rate when you exercise.
What is the medulla?
This lobe processes touch, like feeling your phone vibrate.
What is the parietal lobe?
This concept explains why brain damage affects the opposite side of the body.
What is contralateral organization?
What is the part of the brain (mainly the limbic system, including structures like the nucleus accumbens) that releases dopamine and controls feelings of pleasure and motivation?
What is Reward Center?
A patient sees an object but cannot say it because this connection is cut.
What is a split brain (corpus callosum cut)?
This outer layer of the brain is responsible for thinking and decision-making.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This specific part of the frontal lobe controls judgment and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is the brain’s ability to adapt and recover after injury.
What is plasticity?
What are the four main sections of the cerebral cortex—frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital—that each have different functions like thinking, sensing, hearing, and vision?
What are the Lobes of the cortex?
This function is typically strongest in the left hemisphere.
What is language?