Brain functions

Question 1

Parietal lobe function

Answer 1

Sensory information: touch, temperature, pain, spatial awareness

Question 2

Occipital Lobe Function

Answer 2

Visual Processing. Interprets visual stimuli and helps recognize shapes, colors, and motion

Question 3

Cerebrellum Function

Answer 3

Coordination of voluntary movements, balance, and posture

Question 4

Medulla Oblongata Function

Answer 4

Vital autonomic centers that REGULATE heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rhythm. Also controls reflexes like coughing and sneezing

Question 5

Pons Funcition

Answer 5

Acts as a relay station between the cerebrum and cerebellum. Also helps regulate breathing rhythm

Question 6

Temporal Lobe Function

Answer 6

Auditory Processing, memory formation and language comprehension

Question 7

Frontal Lobe Function

Answer 7

Higher cognitive functions: Reasoning, planning, movement, emotions, and problem solving

Question 8

Prefrontal Cortex

Answer 8

responsible for higher cognitive functions: decisions, planning, personality

Question 9

Frontal Eye field

Answer 9

Controls Voluntary eye movement, allowing for tracking and scanning of visual stimuli

Question 10

Premotor cortex

Answer 10

Planning and Coordinating complex movement

Question 11

Primary motor cortex

Answer 11

Directly controls voluntary muscle movements

Question 12

Broca’s area

Answer 12

Speech production and language procesdsing

Question 13

Primary auditory cortex

Answer 13

Basic auditory information such as pitch, volume, and rhythm

Question 14

Auditory association area

Answer 14

links them to past experiences, helping to recognize voices, music,

Question 15

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 15

Language comprehension

Question 16

Primary Gustatory cortex

Answer 16

Taste information

Question 17

Primary somatosensory cortex

Answer 17

Sensory information from the body touch, tem, pain

Question 18

Angular Gyrus

Answer 18

Language processing, reading, and writing. Spatial cognition

Question 19

Primary visual cortex

Answer 19

initial visual processing, interpreting basic visual, light, shapes, and motion

Question 20

Visual Association area

Answer 20

Recognition of complex objects, faces, and scenes

Question 21

Posterior Association Area

Answer 21

integrates information from different sensory modalities to create an overall perception of the environment.