Parts Of The Brain Flashcards

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Basal ganglia

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Regulates initiation of movements, balance, eye movements and posture. 
Movement regulation 
Skill learning
Habit formation
Reward systems
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Brain stem

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Maintaining homeostasis by controlling autonomic functions (including blood pressure, breathing, digestion, heart rate, perspiration and temp,)
Alertness
Sleep
Balance

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Broca’s area (left side of brain)

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Lang production

Comprehension of complex syntax

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Cerebellum

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Coordinate voluntary movement
Motor learning 
Balance 
Reflex memory
Poster
Timing
Sequence learning
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Cingulate gyrus

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Part of limbic system, pain processing, Emotion, memory, self regulation

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Corpus callosum

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Allows information to pass between right and left hemispheres

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Dentists gyrus

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Memory formation and possible recal

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Entorhinal cortex

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Declarative memory, spatial memory, self localization

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Frontal lobe

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Higher cognitive functioning, executive processes, voluntary behavior

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Hippocampus

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Early memory storage, formation of long term memory, spatial navigation

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Hypothalamus

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Hunger, thirst, body temp, sexual activity, arousal, parenting, blood pressure, heart rate, shivering, Pupil dilation, ciracdian rhythms, sleep

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Limbic system

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Memory formation and storage.
Regulating emotion, processing smell
Sexual arousal

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Middle and inferior temporal gyri

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Word retrieval,language and semantic memory processing, visual perception, multimodal sensory integration, autobiographical memory, visual recognition

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Occipital lobe

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Vision

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Parietal lobe

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Perception and integration of somatosensory information 
Visuospatial processing
Spatial attention
Spatial mapping
Number representation
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Perirhinal cortex

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Object recognition

Memory formation and storage

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Pons

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Regulating breathing and taste

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Prefrontal cortex

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Executive processes 
Attention 
Inhibition 
Intelligence
Social skills
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Premotor cortex

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Planning and executing motor movements
Imitation
Empathy

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Primary motor cortex

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Coordination and initiation of motor movement

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Somatosensory cortex

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Sensory processing and integration

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Subiculum

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Memory processing
Regulation of body’s response to stress
Spatial navigation
Information processing

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Superior temporal gyrus

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Sound and speech processing

Auditory memory

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Temporal lobe

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Recognition
Perception
Understanding languages
Learning and memory

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Thalamus

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Relaying motor and sensory info, memory, alertness, consciousness, contributes to perception and cognition,

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Ventricles

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Cushions and protects the brain

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Wernicke’s area

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Language comprehension

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Amygdala

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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)