Brain Functions Flashcards
Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.
Cerebrum
A broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres
Corpus callosum
Responsible for many roles in behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage.
Frontal lobes
Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles—the muscles we can move and control.
Motor cortex
Receive information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain.
Olfactory bulbs/tracts
Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.
Parietal lobes
Responsible for sensing touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste.
Sensory cortex
Responsible for visual perception and involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.
Occipital lobes
Responsible for the conscious perception of visual input.
Visual cortex
Receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relay this information to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe.
Optic nerves and chiasm
Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize and understand words and language. They are also involved in visual memory.
Temporal lobes
Responsible for the conscious perception of sound.
Auditory cortex
Responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.
Cerebellum
The point where the spinal cord connects with the brain. The brain stem takes in, sends out, and coordinates all of the brain’s messages. It controls the body’s vital functions, such as heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, and digestion.
Brain stem
Carries messages from the sensory organs, like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers, to the cerebrum.
Thalamus
