The brain Flashcards
What is the cerebral hemisphere divided into?
Left and Right
Which side is responsible for art, music, recognition, perception and emotions?
Right
Which side is responsible for language, numbers and reasoning.
Left
Diencephalon is made up of?
Thalamus & Hypothalamus
The brain stem is made up of?
Midbrain, pons and medulla oblongata
Functions of the midbrain?
Connects front and back
What relays messages from the forebrain to the cerebellum to control respiration, sleep, swallowing, taste, bladder control and hearing?
Pons
What connects the brain and spinal cord and contains nuclei associated with cardiac, respiratory and vasomotor functions?
Medulla Oblongata
What controls gross and fine motor skills, hand-eye co-ordination, balance, fine tuning motor movement?
Cerebellum
What contains ~200 million neurons called commissural fibres that join the right and left hemispheres of the brain?
Corpus collosum
What lobe of the brain is responsible for motor function, personality, thinking, planning, problem solving, emotions, behavioural control and decision making (motor cortex)?
Frontal lobe
What lobe of the brain is responsible for sensory information, perception, object classification, spelling, numbers and visuospatial processing (sensory cortex)?
Parietal lobe
What lobe of the brain is responsible for memory, understanding language, facial recognition, hearing, vision, speech and emotion (auditory cortex)?
Temporal lobe
What lobe of the brain is responsible for vision, visual processing and colour identification (visual cortex)?
Occiptal lobe
