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Brain Stem

It connects the brain to spinal cord. It is responsible for breathing. heart-rate, and sleep

Medulla

It controls basic functions like breathing, heart rate and beat

Pons

Relays motor and sensory information, coordinates voluntary movement, balance, and regulating sleep

Reticular formation

Is essential for arousal (sleeping, walking, pain perception)

Cerebellum

Is responsible for non verbal learning, balance, movement, and fine motor controls, movement/motor coordination

Thalamus

Takes in sensory information. (touch, hearing, taste, seeing except smell)

Amygdala

Memory consolidation and emotion (fear and pleasure)

hippocampus

Consolidates and encodes memory and learning

Hypothalamus

Keeps body steady. Body temp, sleep, and hunger

Cerebral Cortex

Is responsible for high-level functioning like conscious thinking/thought, memory, language, and motor controls.

Frontal lobes

Responsible for speaking, planning, judging, abstract thinking, and personality aspects

Parental lobes

Responsible for sense of touch and body position , processing sensory information from skin and muscles

Occipital Lobes

Receive information related to sight

Temporal Lobes

Process sound and speech, responsible for language comprehension and memory (especially declarative memory)

Motor Cortex

Plans and executes voluntary movements (muscle movements and contractions)

Sensory cortex

Receives and processes incoming sensations to create a fuller understanding of objects and the environment

Broca’s Area

Speech and language comprehension

Wernicke’s Area

Processes auditory and converts them into meaningful language, helping us understand spoken language

Corpus Collosum

Consists of white matter tracts that connects the left and right hemisphere