Parts of the brain

Localization

The idea that every behaviour is associated with a specific area of the brain

Frontal Lobe

Reasoning planning and deciding making as well as voluntary action and complex emotion

Parietal lobe

Associated with movement, orientation, perception, and recognition

Occipital lobe

Associated with visual processing

Temporal lobe

Auditory processing, speech and memory

What is the structure that connects the two lobes of the brain called

The corpus callosum

What does the cerebellum do

Th coordination of movement and balance

What is the limbic system

The evolutionary older sub cortical structure known as the emotional brain (basic brain function)

What is the thalamus

A part of the limbic system that has sensory functions and feed nerves from all sensory organs to the cortex

What is the hypothalamus

A part of the limbic system that is involved in basic functions (emotion, thirst and hunger)

What is the amygdala

A part of the limbic system associated with memory, emotion and fear

What is the hippocampus

A part of the limbic system associated with learning, memory, spatial orientation, and transferring information from the STM to the LTM