Parts of brain and function Flashcards
Amygdala
Processing center for emotions
Thalamus
Sensory gateway for sight,sound,touch,taste
Hypothalamus
Body temp, heart rate and hunger hormones that control all these are produced
Hippocampus
Convert short term to long term memories
Corpus callosum
Left and right hemispheres main communication regulator
Cerebellum
Coordination of movement
Pons
Link body to spinal cord
Medulla
Controls vital process like heart beat
Substansia nigra
Control movements or helps
Cerebral cortex include what
Prefrontal
Primary motor
somasensory
visual
Fusiform
auditory
brocas
wernickes
Prefrontal cortex
Decision making
reasoning
personality expression
social appropriateness
Primary motor cortex
Encode direction of movements
Primary somato sensory
Primary receptor of general bodily sensation
Primary visual cortex
Ibtergrate Visual information
Brocas
regulates speech
Wernickes
Regulates information heard or text read understanding
What are the lobes and their functions
Frontal- Voluntary movements
-Cognitive
Parietal- Sensations- location awareness
Occipital- Distance and dept perception-memory formation
Temporal-process auditory info- encoding memory
Fusiform face
Facial recogmition
Auditory
Process sounds and music
Midbrain
Movement
Forebrain and include what
Motivation
-Cerebral
-Corpus
-Thalamus/hypo
-amygdala
-hippocampus
Hindbrain and include what
Survival, movements
-cerebellum
-pons
-medulla
-spinal cord
Spinal cord
brain to body/ body to brain communication
