Brain Functions

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

1. Pre-motor cortex
2. Control of conscious movements
3. Intellectual and emotional functions
4. Motor components of speech
5. Intellect, imagination, personality and other executive higher functions

Question 2

Parietal lobe

Answer 2

1. Involved in receiving, perceiving and processing somatosensory information
2. Touch, pain, temperature, proprioception
3. Primary sensory information receiving area
4. Integrates sensory and motor functions (superior)
5. Auditory and visual sensory processing

Question 3

Temporal lobe

Answer 3

1. Primary auditory receiving area
2. Involved in processing auditory information, understanding language
3. Recognition of faces, objects, memory acquisition

Question 4

Occipital lobe

Answer 4

1. Primary visual cortex

2. Integrates and processes visual information

Question 5

Insula

Answer 5

1. Interoception- gut, heart, pain
2. Emotion
3. Self-recognition
4. Time perception

Question 6

Thalamus

Answer 6

Relays all sensory information to appropriate locations of the cerebral cortex