the brain parts and functions

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Frontal Lobe

Thought, planning, language, movement

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Temporal lobe 

Hearing, object recognition, language, emotion

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Parietal lobe 

Sensory processing, bodily awareness

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Occipital lobe 

Visual processing

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Thalamus 

Sensory relay station

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Hypothalamus 

Temperature regulation, motivation (hunger, thirst, sex)

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Hippocampus 

Memory

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Amygdala

Emotion

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Basal ganglia 

Movement, reward processing

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Brainstem (medulla and pons) 

Breathing, heart rate, sleep, and wakefulness

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Cerebellum

Balance, coordination, and timing of movements; attention and emotion

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Spinal cord

Attaches brain to the rest of the body