Parts of the Brain

Question 1

What does the pons do?

Answer 1

helps coordinate movement and control sleep

Question 2

What does the cerebellum do?

Answer 2

coordinates voluntary movement and balance and supports learning and memories

Question 3

What does the medulla do?

Answer 3

controls heartbeat and breathing

Question 4

Includes the auditory areas, each receiving information primarily from the opposite ear.

Answer 4

Temporal Lobe

Question 5

Involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements

Answer 5

Frontal lobe

Question 6

Receives sensory input for touch and body position

Answer 6

Parietal Lobe

Question 7

Includes areas that receive information from the visual fields

Answer 7

Occipital Lobe

Question 8

ultimate control and information processing center

Answer 8

cerebral cortex

Question 9

Axon fibers connecting the two cerebral hemispheres

Answer 9

corpus callosum

Question 10

relays messages between lower brain centers and cerebral cortex

Answer 10

thalamus

Question 11

Directs maintenance activities such as eating; helps govern the endocrine system; linked to emotion and reward

Answer 11

hypothalamus

Question 12

master endocrine gland

Answer 12

pituitary gland

Question 13

helps process explicit memories for storage

Answer 13

hippocampus

Question 14

linked to emotion, aggression and fear

Answer 14

amygdala