Parts of the Brain Flashcards
The top part of the brain
Cerebrum
The front part of the brain
The large part of the brain
Controls eye movement
Important for speech
The control panal for your personality
Fronal Lobe
Loacated near the center of the brain
Receive messages from the skin
lets us judge distance and shape
Understand math
Parietal Lobe
Interprets info from the ears
Most important area for language
Stores long turm memories
Temporal Lobe
Gets info from the eyes to see things like colors
Occipital Lobe
Located at the top of the brain helps you balance
Cerebellum
Connects the brain to the spinal cord
Brain stem
Controls most of the body tells the body to sweat or shiver
Hypothalamus
the size of a pea releases hormones
Pituitary