Brain Functions Review

Cerebellum
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Cerebellum
responsible for balance, movement, and coordination
Visual cortex
responsible for conscious perception of visual input
Olfactory bulb/tracts
receives information about smells from the nose and sends it to the brain
Optic nerves and chiasm
receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relays information to the visual cortex and occipital lobe
Sensory cortex
responsible for conscious perception of touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature and taste.
Hypothalamus
controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns, and other processes in our bodies that happens automatically.
Corpus collosum
the large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them
Thalamus
carries messages from the sensory organs, like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers to the cerebrum
Auditory cortex
responsible for the conscious perception of sound
Occipital lobe
responsible for visual perception and are involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory
Cerebrumresponsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.Motor Cortexresponsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles, the muscles we can move and controlFrontal lobesresponsible for many roles in behaviors and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage.Brain stemThe point where the spinal cord connects to the brain. The brain stem takes in, sends out, and coordinates all the brain's messages. It controls the body's vital functions (i.e. heartbeat, digestion, breathing...)Temporal loberesponsible for processing smell and sound, as well as, the ability to recognize and understand words and language. Also involved in visual memory.Parietal loberesponsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory