Parts of the Brain Flashcards
Hindbrain
Only part of brain you can live without.
Controls vital functions
Medulla
Controls heart beat and breathing
Reticular Formation
Controls arousal and alertness
thalamus
Receives messages and sends them to where they need to go.
Switchboard.
Cerebellum
Voluntary movements and balance.
Pons
sleep and dream, face recognition, coordinates movement.
Limbic system
emotions
Amygdala
Controls fear and anger
Hypothalamus
Controls breathing, pulse, anything hormonal, reward and pleasure center
Hippocampus
Memory
Frontal Lobe
jugement, planning, Brocas area
Parietal Lobe
Spatial and mathmathicla reasoning
occipital lobe
vision
temporal lobe
hearing
wenikies
understanding language
corpus callosum
connects the two hemispheres, allows left brain to control right side and vise versa
