Areas of the brain

Question 1

Primary motor Cortex

Answer 1

Frontal lobe
Conscious control of precise skilled voluntary movement

Question 2

Premotor cortex

Answer 2

Frontal
- Plans movement
- Sequences complex movements - like typing
-Coordinates movement of multiple muscle groups

Question 3

Brocas

Answer 3

Frontal
- Motor speech area

Question 4

Frontal eye field

Answer 4

Frontal
- Voluntary eye movement

Question 5

Primary Somatosensory cortex

Answer 5

Parietal
Receives input from skin and proprioceptors

Question 6

Somatosensory association area

Answer 6

Parietal
- Integrates sensory inputs to produce an understanding of size and texture
Keys or coins in your pocket

Question 7

Visual area

Answer 7

Occipital
Receives visual information from the retina

Question 8

Visual association area

Answer 8

Occipital
- Uses past visual experience to process visual
Allows us to recognize faces, colours, patterns etc

Question 9

Primary auditory cortex

Answer 9

Temporal
Receives auditory input

Question 10

Auditory association

Answer 10

Temporal
- Perceives raw sound
* Voice
* Music
Thunder

Question 11

Olfactory cortex

Answer 11

Parietal
Part of rhinocephalon

Question 12

Vestibular cortex

Answer 12

Insula
Conscious awareness of balance

Question 13

Gustatory

Answer 13

Insula
Taste

Question 14

Visceral sensory cortex

Answer 14

Insula
- Visceral sensation
* Full bladder
Upset stomach

Question 15

Thalamus

Answer 15

Relay station for cerebral cortex
Information is sorted and edited
Mediates sensation, motor activites

Question 16

Hypothalamus

Answer 16

Main Visceral control of body
Controls ANS to maintain Homeostasis
Initiates physical responses to emotions (heart of the limbic system)
Regulation - body temp, food and water intake, sleep wake cycles

Question 17

Epithalamus

Answer 17

Visible externally as the pineal gland
regulates sleep cycle