Brain Parts and Functions

oldest and central core in the brain ,extension of spinal cord and responsible for automatic survival function(heartbeats).

Controls things like breathing, swallowing, heart/breathing, sneezing, ect. Damage is fatal

Connects the brainstem with the cerebellum—>movement, facial expressions and breathing

-Aids in judgment of time, sound, texture discrimination and emotional control.

-Coordination of voluntary movement and life sustaining functions

-processing nonverbal learning and memory

-Planning/sequence of behavior

-Initiation and direction of movement(Smooth coordination of movements)

-Putting brakes on unnecessary movement

-Regulates arousal(alertness)

-Sleep/wake

-controls consciousness

-pain perception

-eye movement

-integrating sensory processing such as hearing/vision together

-Controlling simple movements with sensory info

Largest and most complicated region of brain

Act as relay station for incoming sensory information(except smell)—>

directs infoto the cerebral cortex

-Controls anger

-Fight or Flight

-Feeding

-Sexual Drive

-Converts memory from short to long term

-Assembles memory information from other parts of the brain for recall

-Causes anger and fear

-helps determine pleasurability

-help with self-preservation behaviors

-Rageful behavior and hypersensitivity(anger,fear, pleasure ect)

-band of fibers that connected the 2 hemispheres of the cerebral cortex together

to process and regulate emotion and memory while also dealing with sexual stimulation and learning

-Associates memories with smell and pain

-produces negative and positive feelings

-regulation of material behavior

-shifting of attention and cognitive flexibility

the left hemisphere controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills.

Primary visual cortex, controls all aspects of vision

Body position

-temperature

-taste

-touch/pain/pressure

-Hearing

-storing long term memories

-speech and language

-understanding

-Movement

-judgement

-planning

-producing speech sounds

-emotional control

-personality

-temperment

Responsible for directing motor movement involved in speech

The brain's ability to continuously change/repair/regenerate/restore itself due to use.

formation of new neurons

Left Temporal Lobe→language comprehension and expression

certain functions are in only in 1 hemisphere

Speech,Grammar rules, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic(langauge)

Verbal memory(memory)

Language sounds(hearing)

words,letters(vision)

Geometry, Sense of direction, Distance, Mental rotation of shapes(spatial ability_

Emotional Tone of Speech(language)

Nonverbal memory(memory)

Non Language sounds(hearing)

Geometric patterns, Faces, Emotional expression(vision)