brain 2 Flashcards
frontal lobe
controls functions like judgement, planning, speech sounds, emotions, personality, temperament, and movement (motor controls)
motor cortex
largely responsible for the voluntary movement of parts of the body
parietal lobe
controls functions like body position, spatial reactions like touch pressure, temperature, pain, and contains the somatosensory cortex
sensory cortex
largely responsible for perceiving touch and pressure on parts of the body
temporal lobe
controls functions like hearing, stores long-term memories, speech and language understanding
auditory complex
responsible for sense of hearing
occipital lobe
controls all aspects of vision (primary visual cortex)
visual cortex
receives images from the eyes and transformed into meaningful stimuli
broca’s area
area in the left frontal lobe that directs muscle movements involved in speech
wernicke’s area
area in the left temporal lobe that is involved in language comprehension and expression
left hemisphere
controls speech, verbal memory, language and sounds
right hemisphere
geometry, sense of direction, emotional tone of speech, non-verbal memory, non-language sounds and music
brain (neuro) plasticity
the brains ability to continually change throughout ones life due to its use
