Parts Of The Brain Flashcards
Basal ganglia
Regulates initiation of movements, balance, eye movements and posture. Movement regulation Skill learning Habit formation Reward systems
Brain stem
Maintaining homeostasis by controlling autonomic functions (including blood pressure, breathing, digestion, heart rate, perspiration and temp,)
Alertness
Sleep
Balance
Broca’s area (left side of brain)
Lang production
Comprehension of complex syntax
Cerebellum
Coordinate voluntary movement Motor learning Balance Reflex memory Poster Timing Sequence learning
Cingulate gyrus
Part of limbic system, pain processing, Emotion, memory, self regulation
Corpus callosum
Allows information to pass between right and left hemispheres
Dentists gyrus
Memory formation and possible recal
Entorhinal cortex
Declarative memory, spatial memory, self localization
Frontal lobe
Higher cognitive functioning, executive processes, voluntary behavior
Hippocampus
Early memory storage, formation of long term memory, spatial navigation
Hypothalamus
Hunger, thirst, body temp, sexual activity, arousal, parenting, blood pressure, heart rate, shivering, Pupil dilation, ciracdian rhythms, sleep
Limbic system
Memory formation and storage.
Regulating emotion, processing smell
Sexual arousal
Middle and inferior temporal gyri
Word retrieval,language and semantic memory processing, visual perception, multimodal sensory integration, autobiographical memory, visual recognition
Occipital lobe
Vision
Parietal lobe
Perception and integration of somatosensory information Visuospatial processing Spatial attention Spatial mapping Number representation
Perirhinal cortex
Object recognition
Memory formation and storage
Pons
Regulating breathing and taste
Prefrontal cortex
Executive processes Attention Inhibition Intelligence Social skills
Premotor cortex
Planning and executing motor movements
Imitation
Empathy
Primary motor cortex
Coordination and initiation of motor movement
Somatosensory cortex
Sensory processing and integration
Subiculum
Memory processing
Regulation of body’s response to stress
Spatial navigation
Information processing
Superior temporal gyrus
Sound and speech processing
Auditory memory
Temporal lobe
Recognition
Perception
Understanding languages
Learning and memory
Thalamus
Relaying motor and sensory info, memory, alertness, consciousness, contributes to perception and cognition,
Ventricles
Cushions and protects the brain
Wernicke’s area
Language comprehension
Amygdala
Adjacent to the hippocampus, processing emotions, fear learning, links areas of the cortex that process “higher” cog. Info. With hypothalamic and brain stem systems that control “lower” metabolic responses. Coordinates psychological responses asked on cognitive info.
(Fight or flight)
