Brain Anatomy

Lobes of the Brain

100

This lobe is responsible for decision making, personality, and executive/cognitive control.

What is Frontal Lobe?

200

This lobe is responsible for hearing and auditory processing.

What is the Temporal Lobe?

300

This lobe is responsible for visual processing.

What is Occipital Lobe?

400

This lobe is responsible for spatial awareness.

What is Parietal Lobe?

500

This lobe is the oftentimes-referred-to-as "5th lobe".

What is Insular Cortex?

Lower Brain Areas

100

This area is responsible for breathing and basic body functions.

What is the Medulla?

200

This area is responsible for motor coordination and balance.

What is Cerebellum?

300

This brain area is the "relay system" and sends incoming information to the proper spot.

What is Thalamus?

400

This brain area is located in the brainstem and is responsible for arousal and sleep.

What is Reticular Formation?

500

Cerebellum means this in Latin

What is Little Brain?

Limbic System

100

This area is responsible for memory encoding.

What is Hippocampus?

200

This area is responsible for fear, emotional memories, and "fight or flight" responses.

What is Amygdala?

300

This area regulates hunger, thirst, temperature, hormones, etc

What is hypothalamus?

400

This area is important in the regulation of multiple hormones.

What is Pituitary Gland?

500

This is the literal translation of "Hippocampus".

What is Seahorse?

Miscellaneous

100

This "brain matter" is made up of cell bodies.

What is Gray Matter?

200

This is the "bridge" of axon fibers between the two hemispheres.

What is Corpus Collosum?

300

This is a ridge in the brain

What is Gyri?

400

This is a groove in the brain.

What is Sulci?

500

The technical term for brain freeze

What is a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia?