3.1.2 brain functioning Flashcards

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The frontal lobe

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executive function (boss of the brain)
decision making & impulse control
has the motor cortex (controls voluntary movement)

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temporal lobe

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hearing and understanding sounds
understanding speech and creating speech
language, hearing , memory

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occipital lobe

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process visual information

main job is to control all things related to processing visual information

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cerebellum

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plays a vital role in movement, coordination, and balance. (motor skills)
takes information from the different senses, our spinal cord and other parts of the brain and combines them to coordinate behaviour.

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parietal lobe

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controls language but also specialises in touch and directing bodily movements
deals with reacting to the environment
has the somatosensory cortex (senses)

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brainstem

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maintaining breathing, circulation, digestion, swallowing.

sending & filtering information, (sensory info- coming in) (motor nerves- going out)

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thalamus

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sorts data, sends it where it needs to go

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hypothalamus

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maintains homeostasis and regulates hunger, thirst, sexual arousal and sleep.
regulates hormone production in the body.

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pituitary gland

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It’s the “master” gland because it tells other glands to release hormones

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cerebrum

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integration, making sense of all information coming in; contains neurons and synapses

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corpus collosum

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collection of nerves that connect the two sides of the brain together

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basal ganglia

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contains nuclei; motor control

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cerebral cortex

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is 80% of the brain

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the limbic system

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handles the memory but also raw appetites and desires- sleep, hunger, aggression and sex.
it is thought to be the source of all our basic emotions.

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amygdala

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the brain’s emotion centre, handles emotional responses to things.

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hippocampus

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important for forming new memories, considered the brain’s memory factory