Parts Of The Brain

Question 1

Frontal Lobe

Answer 1

Working memory, voluntary movement, decision making, language

Question 2

Parietal Lobe

Answer 2

Spatial perception of visual stimuli, somatosensory perception

Question 3

Temporal Lobe

Answer 3

Face recognition, understanding language, emotional reactions

Question 4

Occipital Lobe

Answer 4

Primary visual cortex: info on color, orientation, motion

Question 5

Cerebellum

Answer 5

Movement, posture, motor learning; involved in language and other cognitive functions

Question 6

Brain Stem

Answer 6

Blood pressure, respiration, balance, control of head muscles

Question 7

Thalamus

Answer 7

Relay of sensory information from periphery to cerebral Cortex, attention

Question 8

Cerebral cortex

Answer 8

Higher functions: thinking, language, memory, emotion

Question 9

Hypothalamus

Answer 9

Regulates homeostatic functions (the four f’s: fighting, fleeing, feeding, fucking), circadian rhythm

Question 10

Corpus Callosum

Answer 10

Myelinated axons/fibers that allow integration of the two hemispheres

Question 11

Amygdala

Answer 11

Emotion and motivation/fear learning

Question 12

Hippocampus

Answer 12

Memory formation and consolidation, spatial navigation

Question 13

Basal Ganglia

Answer 13

Regulates movement and reward processing

Question 14

Precentral gyrus

Answer 14

Posterior frontal lobe; primary motor cortex

Question 15

Central sulcus

Answer 15

Separates parietal from frontal lobes, sensory from motor cortex

Question 16

Postcentral gyrus

Answer 16

Primary somatosensory cortex; contains mapped representation of the body (homunculus)

Question 17

Sylvian Fissure

Answer 17

Divides frontal/parietal lobes from temporal