Lobes
Involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments
(located behind the forehead)
What is frontal lobe?
Responsible for automatic survival functions
(begins where the spinal cord swells)
What is brainstem?
Body's control and information-processing center
What is cerebral cortex?
Neural clusters in the limbic system
(linked with emotion)
What is amydgala?
Regulates sleep, arousal, consciousness, and sensory processes
What is pons?
Receives sensory input for touch and body position
(located top of the head toward the rear)
What is parietal lobe?
Region of the brain that is important for language development
(located of the left side of the temporal lobe)
What is Wernicke's Area?
Registers and processes body touch and movement sensations
What is sensory cortex?
Directs maintenance activities and regulates the endocrine system
(linked with emotion and reward)
What is hypothalamus?
Plays a role in sleep and consciousness
What is reticular formation?
Areas that receive information from visual fields
(located at the back of the head)
What is occipital lobe?
neural system associated with emotions and drives
What is limbic system?
Sends signals that allow different segments of the body to communicate with the brain
What is spinal cord?
Involved in the formation of new memories and is also linked with learning and emotions
What is hippocampus?
Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands
What is pituitary gland?
Includes auditory areas, receiving information primarily from the opposite ear
(located above the ears)
What is temporal lobe?
Concerned with the production of speech
What is Broca's Area?
BONUS
Body's speedy, electrochemical communication network
What is nervous system?
Brain's sensory control center
(located on top of the brainstem)
What is thalamus?
Coordinates movement output and balance and enables nonverbal learning and memory
"little brain"
What is cerebellum?
There are four of them in your brain
What are lobes?
Controls voluntary movements
What is motor cortex?
BONUS
Body's "slow" chemical communication system
What is endocrine system?
Integrates the sensory, motor, and cerebral cortexs on one side of the brain to another
What is corpus callosum?
Controls heartbeat and breathing
What is medulla?