Biology Lab 4 Exam

Cerebellum

Motor coordination, monitoring, sensory input, muscle movements, muscle tone

Pons

Connect to cerebellum to other parts of the brain and spinal cord, contains sensory and nuclei of several cranial nerves and nuclei that involves sleep, respiration, swallowing, hearing, equilibrium, taste, eye movements, bladder control, and movement of the head

Medulla Oblongata

Center for autonomic regulation of heartbeat, breathing, construction, and relaxation of blood vessels, sneezing, coughing, gagging, vomiting, hiccuping, and swallowing

Superior Colliculi

Vision

Inferior Colliculi

Hearing

Red Nucleus

Muscle tone and upper limb positioning

Substantia nigra

Relaying of inhibitory signals to the thalamus

Reticular formation

Cardiovascular control, pain, modulation, visual, tracking, consciousness, and habituation

Diencephalon: Epithalamus

Contains pineal gland (an endocrine structure that secretes melatonin); circadian, rhythms, day/ night, cycles, and regulation of reproductive functions

Thalamus

Final relay point for ascending sensory information, going to the primary sensory cortex, involved in emotion, motivation, touch, pain, temperature, position, and visual and auditory signals

Hypothalamus

First, eating, body temperature, and circadian rhythms

Limbic System

Found along the border of the diencephalon and cerebrum, facilitates memory storage and retrieval, learning, establishing emotional states, and linking the conscious and unconscious functions of this cerebral cortex

Cerebrum: frontal lobe

Memory, planning, patience, speech, judgment, mood, volunteer control of skeletal muscle, and aggression

Cerebrum: parietal lobe

Perception of touch, pressure, pain, taste, and temperature

Cerebrum: temporal lobe

Hearing, smell, memory, emotional behavior, and visual recognition

Cerebrum: occipital lobe

Visual centers of the brain

Cerebral Cortex

facilitate interhemispheric communication, allowing for the integration of sensory, motor, and cognitive information between the two sides of the brain