movement and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
hearing
What is the temporal lobe?
Sends messages from your brain and spinal cord to muscle cells.
What are Motor Neurons?
What is a dendrite?
Relay station for all the senses except smell.
What is the Thalamus?
learning - also the largest part
What is the cerebrum?
Taste
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Carries messages to your brain and spinal cord from the receptors in your skin.
What are Sensory Neurons?
What is the cell body or soma?
What is the brain stem?
smell - part of the limbic system
What is the hypothalamus?
Touch
Part of the brain that controls actions of muscles and maintains balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
What is the axon?
This is made of 4 lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
long term memory - part of the limbic system
Short Term Memory
What is the Upper Temporal Lobe?
Carries messages to the cell body of a neuron.
What is a dendrite?
What is the synapse?
Nerves used in the process of smelling.
What are the olfactory nerves?
perceiving and producing speech - hemisphere
What is the left hemisphere?
Vision
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Nervous system that consists of a network of nerves branching out from the central nervous system.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
Insulates the axon and allows for information to travel.
What is myelin?
The basic unit of our nervous system.
What is the Neuron?