Parts Of The Brain

Question 1

Basal ganglia

Answer 1

Regulates initiation of movements, balance, eye movements and posture. 
Movement regulation 
Skill learning
Habit formation
Reward systems

Question 2

Brain stem

Answer 2

Maintaining homeostasis by controlling autonomic functions (including blood pressure, breathing, digestion, heart rate, perspiration and temp,)
Alertness
Sleep
Balance

Question 3

Broca’s area (left side of brain)

Answer 3

Lang production

Comprehension of complex syntax

Question 4

Cerebellum

Answer 4

Coordinate voluntary movement
Motor learning 
Balance 
Reflex memory
Poster
Timing
Sequence learning

Question 5

Cingulate gyrus

Answer 5

Part of limbic system, pain processing, Emotion, memory, self regulation

Question 6

Corpus callosum

Answer 6

Allows information to pass between right and left hemispheres

Question 7

Dentists gyrus

Answer 7

Memory formation and possible recal

Question 8

Entorhinal cortex

Answer 8

Declarative memory, spatial memory, self localization

Question 9

Frontal lobe

Answer 9

Higher cognitive functioning, executive processes, voluntary behavior

Question 10

Hippocampus

Answer 10

Early memory storage, formation of long term memory, spatial navigation

Question 11

Hypothalamus

Answer 11

Hunger, thirst, body temp, sexual activity, arousal, parenting, blood pressure, heart rate, shivering, Pupil dilation, ciracdian rhythms, sleep

Question 12

Limbic system

Answer 12

Memory formation and storage.
Regulating emotion, processing smell
Sexual arousal

Question 13

Middle and inferior temporal gyri

Answer 13

Word retrieval,language and semantic memory processing, visual perception, multimodal sensory integration, autobiographical memory, visual recognition

Question 14

Occipital lobe

Answer 14

Vision

Question 15

Parietal lobe

Answer 15

Perception and integration of somatosensory information 
Visuospatial processing
Spatial attention
Spatial mapping
Number representation

Question 16

Perirhinal cortex

Answer 16

Object recognition

Memory formation and storage

Question 17

Pons

Answer 17

Regulating breathing and taste

Question 18

Prefrontal cortex

Answer 18

Executive processes 
Attention 
Inhibition 
Intelligence
Social skills

Question 19

Premotor cortex

Answer 19

Planning and executing motor movements
Imitation
Empathy

Question 20

Primary motor cortex

Answer 20

Coordination and initiation of motor movement

Question 21

Somatosensory cortex

Answer 21

Sensory processing and integration

Question 22

Subiculum

Answer 22

Memory processing
Regulation of body’s response to stress
Spatial navigation
Information processing

Question 23

Superior temporal gyrus

Answer 23

Sound and speech processing

Auditory memory

Question 24

Temporal lobe

Answer 24

Recognition
Perception
Understanding languages
Learning and memory

Question 25

Thalamus

Answer 25

Relaying motor and sensory info, memory, alertness, consciousness, contributes to perception and cognition,

Question 26

Ventricles

Answer 26

Cushions and protects the brain

Question 27

Wernicke’s area

Answer 27

Language comprehension

Question 28

Amygdala

Answer 28

Adjacent to the hippocampus, processing emotions, fear learning, links areas of the cortex that process “higher” cog. Info. With hypothalamic and brain stem systems that control “lower” metabolic responses. Coordinates psychological responses asked on cognitive info.
(Fight or flight)