Brain parts

cerebral cortex

-outer part

-higher order processes

-memory, personality, decision making, motor control

-made of lobes

-80% of brain mass

corpus callosum

connects hemispheres

hippocampus

-processes conscious memory

-turns short term memory to long

-memory retrieval

thalamus

-all sensory processing but smell

-relay station: processes sensory and motor info and then sends it to cerebral cortex

hypothalamus (7)

-controls endocrine system

-emotion

-reward/pleasure

-hunger & thirst

-sleep

-body temp

-fight or flight-

amygdala

-emotional processing

-fear

cerebellum

-sensory input

-balance & coordination

-fine motor skills

-motor learning (physical skills)

-implicit memory

pons

-facial expressions

-REM sleep

-info transfer b/n cerebellum & cerebrum for coordination

-bladder control

medulla

-heartbeat

-breathing

reticular formation

-arousal

-alertness

-aggression

wernicke’s area

-speech comprehension

-temporal lobe

broca’s area

-speech production

-frontal lobe

limbic system parts (3)

-hypothalamus

-thalamus

-hippocampus

limbic system function

regulates emotion, memory, and behaviors

frontal lobe

-higher level cognitive skills

-thinking

-motor control

-language production

-decision making

-broca’s area

parietal lobe

-sensory input processing

-spatial awareness

-somatosensory & somatomotor cortexes

temporal lobe

-language processing

-sound processing

-long-term memory formation

-emotion processing

-wernicke’s area

occipital lobe

-vision

-recognition