Brain structures/functions

Question 1

Thalamus

Answer 1

Works to correlate consciousness, sleep, and sensory interperetarion

Question 2

hypothalamus

Answer 2

links nervous and endocrine systems via pituitary gland

Question 3

amygdala

Answer 3

responsible for emotion, survival instincts, and memory

Question 4

hippocampus

Answer 4

Long term memory and spatial navigation

Question 6

Medulla

Answer 6

breathing, heart and blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing and swallowing. Center of circulation and respiration

Question 7

cerebellum

Answer 7

Recieves info from sensory systems, spinal cord, and other parts of the brain, as well as regulating motor movements and voluntary activity

Question 8

Reticular formation

Answer 8

States if consciousness such as alertness and sleep

Question 9

frontal/prefrontal lobes

Answer 9

organizing, planning, problem solving, selective attention, personality and higher cognitave functions

Question 10

Parietal lobe

Answer 10

Center of sensation and perception, integrates sensory input with visual system

Question 11

Temporal lobe

Answer 11

high level auditory processing and auditorial perception

Question 12

Occupital lobe

Answer 12

Visual processing center

Question 13

Broca’s area

Answer 13

Control center for speaking muscles

Question 14

Wernicke’s area

Answer 14

understanding speech

Question 15

cingulate/angular gyrus

Answer 15

formation and processing of emotion, learning and memory

Question 16

Sensory cortex

Answer 16

recieves all sensory input from the body

Question 17

motor cortex

Answer 17

Involved with motor skills like speaking

Question 18

pons

Answer 18

Deal with swallowing, sleep, respiration, bladder control, hearing, equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions, facial sensation and posture