Parts of the cerebrum

Cerebral hemisphere

Control opposite sides of the body and specialize in different functions, with the left focusing on language and logic and the right on creativity and spatial awareness

Sulcus (pre, post,& central)

Groove in the brain that separates gyri, increasing surface area and helping divide different functional regions

Gyrus/ gyri (pre & post)

Increase the brain's surface area

Frontal lobe

Controls personality, decision making

Somatic Motor

Precentral gyrus

Somatic motor ~ moves

Parietal lobe

Somatic sensory ~ processes sensory information

Central sulcus

Separates gyrus or lobes

Postcentral gyrus

Somatic sensory ~ feels skeletal muscles and joints

Temporal lobe

Auditory ~ detecting and processing

Lateral sulcus

Separates lobes or sulcus

Occipital lobe

Vision/ processing visual information

Insula

Taste perception

Cerebral white matter = myelinated axons

Connects the billions of cortical neurons to each other and lower portions of the CNS

Corpus callosum

Connects right & left hemispheres

White matter

Fornix

Connects cerebrum to diencephalon

White matter

Septum pellucidum

Separates lateral ventricals

Grey matter