brain functions

Question 1

thalamus

Answer 1

relays for sensory info

Question 2

hypothalamus

Answer 2

emotions, drives like hunger and thirst, hormones, homeostasis (hooks to pituitary)

Question 3

pituitary

Answer 3

primary link between nervous and endocrine system

Question 4

brain stem

Answer 4

midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata

Question 5

midbrain

Answer 5

processes visual and auditory info and involuntary muscles

Question 6

pons

Answer 6

motor control, connects cerebellum to brain stem

Question 7

medulla oblongata

Answer 7

regulates heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and digestion, connects brain to spinal cord

Question 8

cerebrum

Answer 8

largest region of the brain; contains conscious thoughts, sensations, intellect, memory, complex movements; many divisions called lobes

Question 9

somatic motor association area

Answer 9

coordinating learned movements, speech

Question 10

primary motor cortex

Answer 10

directs voluntary movements to motor neurons

Question 11

primary sensory cortex

Answer 11

receive sensory input: touch, pain, pressure, temperature

Question 12

frontal lobe

Answer 12

taste, predicting future consequences of events/actions, abstract intellectual functions, feelings of frustration, tension and anxiety

Question 13

parietal lobe

Answer 13

sensory analysis of your body in space, processes external sensory input

Question 14

occipital lobe

Answer 14

visual processing and visual memory

Question 15

temporal lobe

Answer 15

hearing, memory of sound, speech and understanding speech

Question 16

olfactory bulb

Answer 16

interprets smell

Question 17

hemispheric lateralization

Answer 17

sometimes one side of the brain has a function that the brain that the other side doesn’t

Question 18

optic chiasma

Answer 18

where the optic nerves cross

Question 19

mammillary body

Answer 19

used for feeding reflexes (swallowing) and behaviors (hunting)

Question 20

corpus callosum

Answer 20

joins the two hemispheres allowing communication

Question 21

seizures

Answer 21

runaway impulses in the brain

Question 22

pineal gland

Answer 22

controls circadian rhythms (melatonin)

Question 23

cerebellum

Answer 23

timing, motor coordination, balance, muscle tone

Question 24

cingulate gyrus

Answer 24

pain, emotional behavior, anticipation