PLTW

Olfactory bulb/tracts

Receive information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain.

Optic nerves and chiasm

Receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relay this information to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe.

Auditory cortex

Responsible for the conscious perception of sound.

Motor Cortex

Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles, the muscles we can move and control.

Visual cortex

Responsible for the conscious perception of visual input.

Sensory cortex

Responsible for the conscious perception of touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste.

Frontal lobes

Responsible for many roles in behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well roles in memory retrieval and storage.

Temporal lobes

Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize and understand words and language. They are also involved in visual memory

Occipital lobes

Responsible for visual perception and are involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.

Parietal lobes

Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.

Thalamus

Carries messages from the sensory organs like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers to the cerebrum.

Hypothalamus

Controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns, and other processes in our bodies that happen automatically.

Cerebellum

Responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.

Cerebrum

Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.

Brain stem

Point where the spinal cord connects with the brain. The brain stem takes in, sends out, and coordinates all of the brain’s messages. It controls the body’s vital functions, such as heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, and digestion.

Corpus callosum

Broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres.