Parts of the brain

Question 1

What parts make up the hind-brain

Answer 1

medulla, pons, cerebellum. oldest part of brain.

Question 2

Where is the Medulla?

Answer 2

part of brain closest to spinal cord

Question 3

What does the Medulla do?

Answer 3

controls heart rate, breathing, coughing, sneezing, swallowing

Question 4

What does the Pons do?

Answer 4

Regulates states of sleep and wakefulness

Question 5

Where is the Pons?

Answer 5

Above the medulla, in the hind-brain

Question 6

What does the Cerebellum do?

Answer 6

controls balance and coordination

Question 7

Where is the cerebellum?

Answer 7

In the hind-brain, behind the Pons

Question 8

Reticular Formation

Answer 8

Network of neurons that connects the hind-brain to the thalamus in the fore-brain

Question 9

What parts make up the fore-brain?

Answer 9

thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, cerebral cortex

Question 10

What does the Reticular Formation do?

Answer 10

regulates attentional processes and states of arousal

Question 11

What does the Thalamus do?

Answer 11

Relay station of the brain. routes info from sense receptors to processing centers in cerebral cortex. all senses but smell. It also regulates sleep and wakefulness.

Question 12

What doe the Basal Gonglia do?

Answer 12

Regulates voluntary motion

Question 13

Where is the Hypothalamus?

Answer 13

beneath the thalamus

Question 14

What does the Hypothalamus do?

Answer 14

maintains homeostasis. regulates hunger/thirst, temperature, stress responses, emotions, aggression, reproductive processes

Question 15

What is the Limbic System comprised of?

Answer 15

amygdala, hippocampus, and parts of thalamus, hypothalamus

Question 16

What does the Amygdala do?

Answer 16

triggers fear responses

Question 17

What does the Hippocampus do?

Answer 17

plays a role in the formation of memories

Question 18

Where is the Cerebral Cortex?

Answer 18

outer wrinkly part of brain

Question 19

What does the Cerebral Cortex do?

Answer 19

responsible for ability to think, create, use language, problem solve, organize, and calculate

Question 20

What is the Cerebrum?

Answer 20

Largest mass of the fore-brain, consisting of 2 hemispheres

Question 21

Where is the Cerebral cortex located?

Answer 21

Its the outer layer of the cerebrum

Question 22

What Lobes are part of the Cerebral cortex?

Answer 22

occipital, frontal, parietal, temporal

Question 23

What is the Corpus Callosum?

Answer 23

A thick bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of he cerebrum

Question 24

What does the Corpus Callosum do?

Answer 24

Lets the hemispheres of the brain communicate and share information

Question 25

What do the Occipital Lobes do?

Answer 25

Lobes in charge of proccessing visual stimuli

Question 26

Where are the Occipital Lobes located?

Answer 26

Back of the head

Question 27

Where are the Frontal Lobes?

Answer 27

on the front top of the brain, behind forehead.

Question 28

What are the Frontal Lobes responsible for?

Answer 28

executive processes like planning, executing plans, prioritizing, long term thinking, and decision making. Processes emotions, and controls impulses

Question 29

Where are the Parietal Lobes?

Answer 29

top of brain between frontal and occipital lobes

Question 30

What cotrex is located in the Parietal Lobes?

Answer 30

Somatosensory

Question 31

what do the Parietal lobes do?

Answer 31

processes sensory info like hot/cold, pressure, touch and pain. It also is in charge of knowing the position of your body

Question 32

Where are the Temporal Lobes located?

Answer 32

Above the ears, below and behind frontal lobes

Question 33

What do the Temporal Lobes do?

Answer 33

Processes auditory stimuli

Question 34

What are Mirror Neurons

Answer 34

Neurons that fire sympathetically. Both when you do an action, and when you see the same action.

Question 35

What are Association Areas?

Answer 35

Areas that piece together information from different lobes, such as using different sensory information to form a perception, solve a problem, etc

Question 36

Where is the Motor Cortex?

Answer 36

In the Frontal Lobe

Question 37

What does the Motor Cortex do?

Answer 37

controls voluntary movements