Lobes of the Brain
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The lobe in which processes most of the visual information.
The area of the brain linked to speech production, located in the frontal lobe.
What is Broca's Area?
The part of the brain associated with the shape of an almond.
What is the Amygdala?
The part of the brain associated with coordinating voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth and balanced muscular activity.
What is the cerebellum?
The ______ connects the two hemispheres of the brain, allowing them to communicate between each other.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
What is the Temporal Lobe?
The Lobe whence sounds are processed, including language and speech comprehension.
The part of the brainstem that links the medulla oblongata and the thalamus.
What is the Pons?
The part of the brain associated with automatic (involuntary) actions including vomiting and sneezing.
What is the Medulla? What is the Medulla Oblongata?
The part of the brain which is an important part of the limbic system, a cortical region that regulates motivation, emotion, learning, and memory, and located in the temporal lobe of each cortex.
What is the Hippocampus?
The main point of ____ is to relay motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex.
the thalamus
What is the last part of the brain to fully develop?
The prefrontal cortex
A set of neurons deep in the medial temporal lobe shown to play a key role in the processing of emotions.
What is the Amygdala?
The brain part involved in the control of breathing, communication between different parts of the brain, and sensations such as hearing, taste, and balance, and in the past was associated incorrectly with synesthesia.
What is the pons?
The part of the brain connecting the two hemispheres and associated with epilepsy.
What is the corpus callosum?
The _____________ screens incoming information so as not to overload the brain, alerts higher brain centres to important information, helps maintain consciousness, and regulates arousal and muscle tone
Reticular Formation
What is the Frontal Lobe?
The lobe that controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexual behaviors
What area of the brain is responsible for speech comprehension but is also located in the temporal lobe?
Wernicke's Area
The part of the brain imperative to releasing hormones and regulating body temperature.
What is the Hypothalamus?
Name at least 2 brain parts located in the brain stem.
Pons, Medulla (Oblongata), Reticular Activating System
The _____ is known as the "control panel" of our personality and ability to communicate.
What is Frontal Lobe?
Which lobe is almost exclusively devoted to the sense of vision?
The Occipital Lobe
A diffuse network of nerve pathways in the brainstem mediating the overall level of consciousness, especially through being the main connector of the spinal cord, the cerebrum, and cerebellum.
What is the reticular activating system?
The part of the brain which releases dopamine and melatonin
What is the Hypothalamus?
Name 3 parts of the brain associated with emotions.
Hypothalamus (through regulation of hormones), The Amygdala, Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
The _________ connects the spine, c___, and c____, and mediates the overall level of c___. It is located in the brain stem.
The Reticular Activating System connects the spine, cerebrum, and cerebellum, and mediates the overall level of consciousness. It is located in the brain stem.