Ch 3 Parts of the Brain Flashcards
What is the largest part of the human brain?
Cerebrum
True or False: The cerebellum is responsible for voluntary movement and coordination.
True
Fill in the blank: The ________ is responsible for regulating vital functions such as breathing and heart rate.
brainstem
What part of the brain is involved in processing visual information?
Occipital lobe
Multiple choice: Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for emotions?
Limbic system
What is the function of the frontal lobe?
It is involved in reasoning, planning, problem-solving, and emotional control.
True or False: The temporal lobe is responsible for auditory processing.
True
Fill in the blank: The ________ connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
corpus callosum
What is the role of the parietal lobe?
It processes sensory information such as touch, temperature, and pain.
Multiple choice: Which structure is important for memory formation?
Hippocampus
What structure in the brain regulates sleep and wakefulness?
Hypothalamus
True or False: The amygdala is associated with fear and pleasure responses.
True
Fill in the blank: The ________ is involved in the coordination of voluntary movements and balance.
cerebellum
What is the main function of the thalamus?
It acts as a relay station for sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex.
Multiple choice: Which part of the brain is primarily involved in language comprehension?
Wernicke’s area
It is involved in reasoning, motor control, emotion, and language, contains the motor cortex and broca’s area.
Frontal lobe
It controls the automatic processes of the autonomic nervous system, such as breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate.
Medulla
It receives messages from muscles, tendons, joints, and structures in our ear to control balance, coordination, movement, and motor skills, and houses procedural muscle memory.
Cerebellum
It is an essential structure for learning and memory.
Hippocampus
Helps to regulate a number of homeostatic processes, including the regulation of body temp, appetite, and blood pressure.
Hypothalamus
Endocrine structure located inside the brain that releases melatonin.
Pineal gland
Located immediately behind the frontal lobe, and is involved in processing
information from the body’s senses. It contains the somatosensory cortex, which is essential for processing
sensory information from across the body, such as touch, temperature, and pain.
Parietal lobe
Serves as the relay center of the brain where most senses are routed for processing except for smell.
Thalamus
It is located at the very back of the brain. Part of the cerebral cortex associated with visual processing; contains the primary visual cortex pancreas secretes hormones that regulate blood sugar.
Occipital lobe
Structure in the limbic system involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories.
Amygdala
Is crucial for the normal operation of the neurons within the nervous system: the loss of the insulation it provides can be
detrimental to normal function. Fatty substance that insulates axons.
Myelin sheath
The cell body of a neuron in the brain, where the nucleus is located.
Soma
Axon terminal containing synaptic vesicles.
Terminal buttons
Midbrain structure where dopamine is produced: associated with mood,
reward, and addiction.
Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA)
Branch-like extension of the soma that receives incoming signals from other neurons. These serve as input sites.
Dendrites
