Brain parts and locations

Frontal lobe

Thinking, decision-making, problem solving, personality, voluntary movement

Parietal lobe

Processes touch, temperature, pain, and body position

Temporal lobe

Hearing, memory, understanding language

Occipital lobe

Vision and processing visual information

Cerebrum

Thinking, memory, senses, voluntary movement

Cerebellum

Balance, coordination, smooth movement

Brain stem

Controls breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, digestion

Hypothalamus

Controls hunger, thirst, body temperature, sleep; links nervous and endocrine systems

Pituitary gland

Master gland; controls other endocrine glands

Medulla oblongata

Controls heartbeat and breathing rate

🧠 Quick Memory Tricks

Lobe

Memory Trick

Frontal lobe

FRONT = thinking ahead/planning

Parietal lobe

PARIETAL = pressure/touch

Temporal lobe

TEMPORAL = tunes/music/hearing

Occipital lobe

OCCIPITAL = optical/vision

Cerebellum

Balance brain

Brain stem

Survival stem

Pituitary gland

Master gland