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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
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