Brain Vocab Terms Flashcards
Pituitary Gland
regulate other glands: dangles off brain
medulla
blood pressure, heart rate, breathing; located just above the spinal cord
Pons
sleep; part of brainstem, below midbrain, above medulla
Cerebral Cortex
“gray matter” involved in problem-solving and complex thinking
Cerebellum
balance, movement, and posture; back of the brain
Corpus Callosum
connects and sends messages to the 2 hemispheres of the brain
Frontal Lobe
PET (personality, emotion, and thought)
Temporal Lobe
processes hearing
Occipital Lobe
processes vision
Parietal Lobe
process sensory information
Thalamus
receives and relays sensory information
Hypothalamus
body temperature, sexual arousal, hunger, thirst, and emotion
Amygdala
emotion; part of temporal lobe
Midbrain
Pain
Brainstem
autonomic functions
motor cortex
controls voluntary movements; part of the frontal lobe
Hippocampus
short-term memory
Pineal Gland
regulates daily activities, controls sleep, produces melatonin; close to thalamus
Sensory Cortex
interprets senses
Reticular Formation
arousal, alertness, and attention
Wernick’s Area
decodes speech
Broca’s Area
commands speech
Visual Cortex
interprets vision in the ococipital lobe
Optic Nerve
vision carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain
Olfactory Nerve
carries smell impulses from nose to brain