Parts of the brain

Question 1

Cerebellum

Answer 1

Back part of coral part of the brain. Controls balance, coordination, and fine muscle control. It also functions to maintain posture and equilibrium.

Question 2

Four parts of the cerebrum.

Answer 2

Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital

Question 3

Cerebrum

Answer 3

Large, outer part of the brain.

Question 4

Three parts of the Brain Stem.

Answer 4

Midbrain
Pons
Medulla

Question 5

Frontal lobe

Answer 5

Controls many cognitive skills, emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgement, and sexual behaviours. Basically the control panel of our personality and ability to communicate.

Question 6

Parietal lobe

Answer 6

Sits behind Frontal lobe. Divided into two sections, one involves sensation and perception, and the other is concerned with integrating sensory input, primarily with the visual system.

Question 7

Temporal lobe

Answer 7

Sits below the Frontal and Parietal. Associated with processing auditory information and the encoding of memory. Dominant lobe (left or right) involved in understanding language and learning and remembering verbal information. Non dominant involved in remembering non verbal auditory information

Question 8

Occipital lobe

Answer 8

Back if the brain. Responsible for visual perception, including colour, form and motion.

Question 9

Pons

Answer 9

Part of brain stem. Neural pathways. Pons is bridge in latin.

Question 10

Medulla

Answer 10

Lowest part of the brain stem. Controls cardiac, respiratory, vomiting, and vasomotor (Blood vessel dilation), and the sleep wake cycle.

Question 11

Mid-brain

Answer 11

Associated with vision, motor control, sleep and wakefulness, arousal (alertness) and temp regulation.

Question 12

Pre-frontal cortex

Answer 12

Executive function. Ability to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social control. Front part of cerebral cortex.

Question 13

6 parts of the limbic system

Answer 13

Amygdala
Hippocampus
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Basal ganglia
Cingulate gyrus

Question 14

Hippocampus

Answer 14

Facilitates the consolidation of short term memory into long term memory, and in spatial memory (For navigation)

Question 15

Amygdala

Answer 15

Involved in emotions, and in emotional memory. This is where emotions are given meaning, remembered, and attached to associations and responses to them.

Question 16

Thalamus

Answer 16

Relays motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex.

Question 17

Hypothalamus

Answer 17

Links nervous system to endocrine system via pituitary gland.

Question 18

Basal ganglia

Answer 18

Involved in control of voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, habit learning, eye movements, emotion, and cognition

Question 19

Cingulate gyrus

Answer 19

Involved in processing emotions and behaviour regulation. It also helps to regulate autonomic motor function.