Innerworkings of the Mind

Regions of the Brain

100

Responsible for problem solving, personality, planning, decision making

Frontal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex

200

Responsible for sight

Occipital Lobe

300

Responsible for receiving and processing sound

Temporal Lobe

400

Responsible for emotions

Limbic Lobe 

500

Responsible for balance and coordination

Cerebellum

Neuron

100

Receives messages from other neurons

Dendrites

200

Contains the nucleus of the neuron

Cell body, soma +5 

300

Travels the message from the receiver to the sender

Axon

400

Sends the message to next neuron 

Axon terminal

500

Surrounds the axon, increases the speed of the message

Myelin Sheath 

Perception

100

The process of sensing our environment through sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell

Sensation

200

The process of interpreting sensation

Perception

Memory

100

The part of the brain that is responsible for consolidating new memory 

Hippocampus

200

This number represents the amount of information short term memory can hold at a time

7, 7 plus or minus 2 

300

These are the ways we can improve our memory

Focus Attention (100), Avoid Cramming (100), Adequate Sleep (100)

400

This person had his hippocampus removed and therefore could not form new memory 

H.M., Henry Molaison