Command centre

Question 1

Brainstem

Answer 1

• regulates many functions that keep us alive (eg. breathing)
• reflexes

Question 2

Midbrain

Answer 2

• Tracks visual stimuli (lights)
• reflexes

Question 3

Pons and Medulla

Answer 3

• Pons play a role in dreaming
• Medulla: regulates breathing and heart rate

Question 4

Cerebellum

Answer 4

• “small brain”
• Movement and posture

Question 5

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 5

• most developed area of our brain
• seat of higher mental processes
• two cerebral hemispheres
• lateralization
  
  • both sides are involved in everything that we do
  • but certain sides are more stronger in a certain domain
• thoughts, rationalization
• no nerve connections that run between the two

Question 6

Corpus Collusum

Answer 6

band of fibres; communication bridge that allows the right and left part of the brain to communicate

Question 7

Lobes

Answer 7

frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal