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Temporal lobe

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Hearing, long term memory, and language comprehension

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Frontal lobe

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Intelligence, problem solving, short term memory, language, motor planning, and mathematical calculations

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Parietal lobe

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Sensory detection, perception, and interpretation

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Occipital lobe

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Interpretations visual stimuli

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Limbic lobe

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Emotion, memory, and olfaction (smell)

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Insula

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Taste, respiration, and interpreting music

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Central sulcus

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Separates frontal and parietal lobes

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Lateral fissure

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Separates frontal and temporal lobes

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Parieto-occipital sulcus

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Separates parietal and occipital lobes

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Cerebral cortex

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Processes sensory/motor information, intelligence, reasoning, language, memory, and personality

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Red nucleus

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Lies in the midbrain
Sends axons to motor neurons in the cervical spinal cord

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Cerebellum

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Coordinates movement, practice-related learning, timing & fluidity of speech

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Peduncles

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Large bundles of fibers connecting cerebellum to posterior brain stem

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Diencephalon

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Thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus

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Thalamus

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Nucleus relays information to cerebral cortex
Processes memory, emotional information, visual information, touch, and hearing

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Hypothalamus

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Regulates eating, sleeping, waking, thirst, and fullness
Controls body temperature
Regulates reproductive behavior

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White Matter
The Less Clumsy Funny Pretty Cousin

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Tracts
Leminiscus
Column
Fasciculus
Peduncle
Capsule

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Cranial meninges
Face The Facts

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Dural infoldings

Falx Cerebri
Tentorium Cerebelli
Falx Cerebelli

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Cranial Nerves
On Occasion Our Thirsty Truck Acts Funny Very Good Vehicle Any How

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CN I Olfactory
CN II Optic
CN III Oculomotor
CN IV Trochlear
CN V Trigeminal
CN VI Abducens
CN VII Facial
CN VIII Vestibulocochlear
CN IX Glossopharyngeal
CN X Vagus
CN XI Accessory
CN XII Hypoglossal

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Oligodendrocytes

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Macroglia that produce the myelin sheath

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