Brain Test Flashcards
Frontal Lobe
Personality
Social Skills
Judgment
Emotion Regulation
Movement
Speech
Reasoning
Executive functioning
Temporal Lobe
Memory
Combine Senses with Memory
Object Recognition
Understanding Language
Art/Music
Alertness
Hearing
Thalamus
Spatial Attention
Depth Perception
Relay Center for information form the body to brain
Consciousness
Alertness
Sleep
Basal Ganglia
Memory
Emotion
Coordination of muscle Movement
Parietal Lobe
Depth Perception
Spatial Attention
Spatial Orientation
Receices Sensory input
Language Processing
Writing/Reading
Calculation
Occipital Lobe
Sight
Processing Visual Info
Cerebellum
Balance
Learning
Emotion Regulation
Coordinate Movement
Attention
Motor Leanring
Controls posture, balance and fine motor movements
Brian Stem
Breathing
Heart Rate
Blood flow throughout the body
Alertness and Sleep patterns
Motor and sensory pathways cross sides of the body for the brain to spinal cord
The pathway up to the Brain
- Sense Organs
- Sensory (Afferent)
- PNS (Cranial and Spinal Nerves)
- CNS brain and Spinal cord
Pathway from the Brain
- CNS brain and Spinal cord
- PNS (Cranial and Spinal Nerves)
- Motor (Efferent)
Then Either
- Somatic (Voluntary)
Skeletal Muscles - Autonomic (Involuntary)
Cardiac and Smooth Muscles. Glands
2 Types of Glands
Parasympathetic
Helps you sleep
Sympathetic
Can make a mom lift a car
Emotion
Midbrain
Controls Involuntary eye movement
Reflexes related to visual and audio Info
PONS
Relays messages from the cortex to the cerebellum
Responsible for facial Sensitivity
Plays a major role in REM Sleep, where dreams occur
Medulla
Regulates breathing, Heart, digestion, Sleeping
Plays a role on regulating muscle tone and movement
Responsible for initiating reflexes such as vomiting, swallowing, gagging, coughing, sneezing, and hiccup
Parts of the Diencephalon
Thalamus
Hypothalamus