Brain functions psychology

Cerebellum

Balance and movement

Basil Ganglia

responsible for automatic procedural memories

Wernicke’s area

language comprehension and meaningful speech

Parietal lobe

Touch and spatial awareness

Brainstem

controls breathing and heartrate

cerebral cortex

Thinking, memory, sensory processing, and decision- making

occipital lobe

processing of visual point

FTPOCB

frontal lobe, Temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, cerebellum, Brainstem

structure + function of cerebral cortex

The thin outer layer of grey matter that covers the cerebrum

Is the site of cognition (thinking, language, memory, decision making and movement) and information processing (making sense of incoming sensory information)

amygdala

encodes the emotional significance of memories