Brain Quiz

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Frontal Lobe

Largest lobe, responsible for behavior traits (personality), decision making, and motor control.

Prefrontal cortex

The ability to make complex and socially mindful decisions. (filter out unimportant sensations)

Motor cortex

Directs movement by controlling muscle contractions in specific body regions

Broca’s Area

the Production and coordination of speech

occipital lobe

Decodes visual signals from the eye. Tells us about where, how, and what we are seeing

Primary Visual Cortex

First part of the occipital lobe to receive visual information

Parietal Lobe

Processes sensory signals from the body. (Touch, pain, and temperature). It focus our attention on important things in the environment.

Somatosensory cortex

receives information from across the body, including touch, pain and temperature

Temporal Lobe

Processes sounds, helps you understand language and forms of long term memory.

Primary Auditory Cortex

interprets sounds, detect high frequency sounds

Wernicke’s Area

Allows us to comprehend language both written and spoken

Brain Stem

Acts as the body’s autopilot by regulating essential survival functions like breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure.

MidBrain

dopamine producing cells called substantia nigra helps regulate movement and is involved in processing visual and auditory information.

Pons

Regulates critical unconscious functions, sleep cycles, and facial movements

Medulla Oblongata

Houses breathing control centers and regulates life support processes

Limbic System

mages emotions, memory, survila drives