Major Functions

Question 1

Occipital Lobe (major function)

Answer 1

Visual processing

Question 2

Parietal Lobe (major function)

Answer 2

Sensory integration/spatial context and processing

Question 3

Temporal Lobe (major function)

Answer 3

Hearing, language

Question 4

Frontal Lobe (major function)

Answer 4

Executive and motor control

Question 5

Brainstem (major function)

Answer 5

-Cranial Nerves -Regulation of cardiac, respiratory function -Regulates CNS -Maintains consciousness -Regulates sleep cycles

Question 6

Spinal Cord (major function)

Answer 6

Sensory & motor relay

Question 7

Cerebellum (major function)

Answer 7

Motor control

Question 8

Basal Ganglia (major function)

Answer 8

activates and coordinates internally generated movements (action selection rather than stimulus-bound responses), critical for consolidating procedural memory

Question 9

Amygdala (major function)

Answer 9

recognizing and reacting to challenged confronted in the environment, associative learning (non-emotional stimuli can acquire emotional properties), and emotion

Question 10

Hippocampus (major function)

Answer 10

Memory formation and recall

Question 11

Thalamus (major function)

Answer 11

Diencephalon Processes sensory and motor information going to/from the cerebral cortex (all sensory pathways relay here first!)

Question 12

Hypothalamus (major function)

Answer 12

Diencephalon Integrates autonomic, endocrine, and limbic functions and is important for the maintenance of homeostasis

Question 13

Limbic Lobe (major function)

Answer 13

Emotions, basic drives, memory, smell