Review
What is the brain considered to be?
Organ of soft nervous tissue
Cerebrum
Purpose of right hemisphere
Controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills
Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital
Why are there different parts of the brain?
To control different body functions.
What is the purpose of the cerebellum?
Coordinate muscle movement, maintain posture, and balance
Purpose of left hemisphere
Controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing ; Logic
Cerebral hemispheres have distinct ____ which divide the brain into lobes
fissures
Difference between conscious & unconscious thoughts.
Conscious = memories able to be accessed readily
Unconscious = memories unable to be accessed yet are responsible for one's personality and behavior
What are two functions of the cerebrum?
Ex) Interpreting touch, Vision and Hearing, Speech, Reasoning, Emotions, Learning, Fine control movement
What are our brain hemispheres joined by?
fibers called corpus callosum
Sum up the functions of the frontal lobe
Where complex thinking occurs
What do neurons do?
Carry information throughout the human body.
What does the brainstem connect the cerebrum and cerebellum to?
Spinal cord
Purpose of corpus callosum fibers
Transmits messages from one side to the other
Sum up the Parietal Lobe's functions.
Processes sensory information
What is an example of an UNCONSCIOUS psychological activity that the brain controls?
Ex) Breathing, Heart rate, Body temperature, Wake and sleep cycles, Digestion, Sneezing, Coughing, Vomiting, Swallowing
Each hemisphere controls the ____ side of the body
opposite
Sum up the occipital lobe
Processes visual information