Parts of Brain

Forebrain

Processes complex cognitive activities, sensory functions, and voluntary motor activities

Cerebral Cortex

Consciousness, thought, emotion, reasoning, memory

Frontal Lobe

Responsible for reasoning, motor control, emotion, and language

Motor Cortex

Planning and coordinating movement

Broca’s Area

Language production

Prefrontal cortex

Higher level cognitive functioning

Temporal lobe

Hearing, memory, emotion, some language

Auditory complex

Processes auditory information

Wernike’s area

Speech comprehension

Occipital lobe

Primary visual cortex which interprets visual information

Limbic System

Process emotion and memory

Hippocampus

Learning and memory

Amygdala

Ties emotional meaning to memories

Hypothalamus

Regulates homeostatic processes

* body temp, appetite, BP, sexual motivation and behavior

Midbrain

Substantia Nigra and VTA produce dopamine which is critical for movement and plays a roll in mood, reward, and addiction

Hindbrain

Extension of spinal cord, connects spinal cord to brain

Cerebellum

Controls balance, coordination, movement, motor skills

Pons

Pons regulates sleep activity

Medulla

Controls automatic processes of autonomic nervous system

* breathing, BP, HR

Parietal lobe

Processes info from body’s senses

somatosensory cortex

Processes touch and sensation across the body