First Exam Flashcards
occipital lobe
receives information from the eye
temporal lobe
auditory information
Postcentral gyrus
sense of touch
Precentral Gyrus
motor control
corpus callosum
allows communication between right and left cerebral hemisphere
basal ganglia
important for movement
limbic system
emotion and learning
Amygdala
emotional regulation & perception of odor
hippocampus and fornix
important for learning
cingulate gyrus
implication of direction of attention
thalamus
sends information to cortex
hypothalamus
vital functions
hunger, thirst, temperatur regulation, reproductive behaviors
superior colliculi
process visual information
inferior colliculi
process sound information
substantia nigra & red nucleus
motor center
anterior commissure
link two cerebral hemispheres of the brain
mammillary body
recollective memory
insula
regulating the immune system
cerebral aqueduct
connects third vetricke to the fourth ventricle
myelencephalon (=medulla oblongata)
vital functions and reflexes
pons
breathing
cerebellum
maintain balance
What is part of the basal ganglia?
caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus
What is part of the limbic system
cingulate gyrus, thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus
