Brain Lobes

Question 1

Frontal Lobe

Answer 1

• Motor Cortex - planning and execution (damage = apraxia)
• Speech - Broca’s Area (production of speech)
• Personality/emotion
• Memory

Question 2

Parietal Lobe

Answer 2

• Sensory cortex: origin, shape, pressure, texture

- Body/spatial awareness

Question 3

Temporal Lobe

Answer 3

• Auditory cortex
• Wernicke’s area - understanding whether a sound is speech, music or noise
• Memory

Question 4

Occipital Lobe

Answer 4

• Visual cortex

- Interprets visual input

Question 5

Brainstem

Answer 5

• Comprised of pons, medulla oblongata and midbrain (important control centres for cardio, resps etc)
• Connects brain to spinal cord and peripheral system
• Sensory and motor pathways
• Contains cranial nerves

Question 6

Cerebellum

Answer 6

• Produces smooth, co-ordinated movement and balance

- Proprioceptive information

Question 7

What’s in the diencephalon?

Answer 7

Thalamus (relay station)
Hypothalamus (important for homeostasis - endocrine gland)

Corpus collosum (connects the two hemispheres)
Pineal gland (melatonin)
Anterior and posterior pituitary gland (important for homeostasis)

Question 8

Thalamus

Answer 8

Relay station for sensory and motor pathways and information

Question 9

Hypothalamus

Answer 9

Major endocrine gland, important for homeostasis

Question 10

What’s in the lymbic system?

Answer 10

All play an important role in emotions and memory

Cingulate gyrus (important role in emotions)
Hippocampus (important for short term memory and learning)
Amygdala (important role in emotions and memory - including past trauma)

Fornix (connects to hippocampus)

Question 11

Hippocampus

Answer 11

Important for short term memory and learning