Brain Functions

Question 1

Primary Motor Cortex

Answer 1

Initiates all voluntary muscle movement

Question 2

Broca’s Area

Answer 2

Initiates all voluntary muscle movement involved in speech

Question 3

Primary Somatosensory Cortex (PSC)

Answer 3

Interprets general sensations

Question 4

Auditory Cortex

Answer 4

Hearing

Question 5

Visual Cortex

Answer 5

Vision

Question 6

Gustatory Cortex

Answer 6

Taste

Question 7

Corpus Callosum

Answer 7

Transmits impulses between hemispheres

Question 8

Thalamus

Answer 8

Central relay station for incoming sensory impulses, except smell

Question 9

Hypothalamus

Answer 9

Regulates homeostasis

Question 10

Midbrain

Answer 10

Auditory/Visual Reflexes; Reticular Formation

Question 11

Pons

Answer 11

Pneumotaxic Center (rate of breathing)

Question 12

Medulla (Oblongata)

Answer 12

Autonomic Center of Cardiac (heart rate and rhythm), Vasomotor Center (Blood Pressure) , Respiratory (rhythm of breathing)

Question 13

Cerebellum

Answer 13

Coordination of all muscle movements; balance and equilibrium

Question 14

Basal Nuclei

Answer 14

Relay stations for outgoing motor impulses

Question 15

Choroid Plexus

Answer 15

Secretion of cerebral spinal fluid

Question 16

Ventriclees

Answer 16

Circulation of cerebral spinal fluid

Question 17

Arachnoid Granulations

Answer 17

Reabsorption of cerebral spinal fluid

Question 18

Limbic System

Answer 18

Emotions, Moods, and circadian rhythm

Question 19

Reticular Formation

Answer 19

Brain alertness

Question 20

Hippocampus

Answer 20

Creates, stores, accesses new knowledge and information