Brain functions Flashcards
Parietal lobe function
Sensory information: touch, temperature, pain, spatial awareness
Occipital Lobe Function
Visual Processing. Interprets visual stimuli and helps recognize shapes, colors, and motion
Cerebrellum Function
Coordination of voluntary movements, balance, and posture
Medulla Oblongata Function
Vital autonomic centers that REGULATE heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rhythm. Also controls reflexes like coughing and sneezing
Pons Funcition
Acts as a relay station between the cerebrum and cerebellum. Also helps regulate breathing rhythm
Temporal Lobe Function
Auditory Processing, memory formation and language comprehension
Frontal Lobe Function
Higher cognitive functions: Reasoning, planning, movement, emotions, and problem solving
Prefrontal Cortex
responsible for higher cognitive functions: decisions, planning, personality
Frontal Eye field
Controls Voluntary eye movement, allowing for tracking and scanning of visual stimuli
Premotor cortex
Planning and Coordinating complex movement
Primary motor cortex
Directly controls voluntary muscle movements
Broca’s area
Speech production and language procesdsing
Primary auditory cortex
Basic auditory information such as pitch, volume, and rhythm
Auditory association area
links them to past experiences, helping to recognize voices, music,
Wernicke’s Area
Language comprehension
Primary Gustatory cortex
Taste information
Primary somatosensory cortex
Sensory information from the body touch, tem, pain
Angular Gyrus
Language processing, reading, and writing. Spatial cognition
Primary visual cortex
initial visual processing, interpreting basic visual, light, shapes, and motion
Visual Association area
Recognition of complex objects, faces, and scenes
Posterior Association Area
integrates information from different sensory modalities to create an overall perception of the environment.
