| frontal lobe | voluntary movement, expressive language, managing higher level executive functions | directly behind the forehead |
| temporal lobe | processes auditory information, encoding of memory | behind the ears |
| parietal lobe | processes somatosensory information (touch, pain, temperature, limb position) | near the back and top of the head |
| occipital lobe | visual perception (color, form, motion) | the back of the head |
| cerebellum | muscle control, balance and movement, walking, posture, coordination, eye movements, speech | the back of the head just above and behind where the spinal cord connects to the brain |
| motor cortex | generate signals to direct the body’s movement | frontal lobe, left and right hemispheres |
| visual cortex | receive, segment, and integrate visual information | occipital lobe, left and right hemispheres |
| auditory cortex | integrating and processing complex auditory signals (language comprehension) | temporal lobe, left hemisphere |
| sensory cortex | process and make information out of our five senses | parietal lobe, left and right hemispheres |
| cerebral cortex | higher-level processes (language, memory, reasoning, thought, learning, decision-making, emotion, intelligence, personality) | frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes, left and right hemispheres |
| corpus callosum | ensures both sides of the brain can communicate with each other | between left and right hemispheres |
| hypothalamus | manage body temperature, hunger and thirst, mood, sex drive, blood pressure, and sleep | below thalamus, above pituitary gland |
| thalamus | processes information before sending it to the cerebral cortex | middle of the brain |
| hippocampus | learning, memory | temporal lobe, left and right hemispheres |
| amygdala | processing fearful and threatening stimuli | medial temporal lobe, left and right hemispheres |
| Broca’s area | speech production and articulation | frontal lobe, left hemisphere |
| Wernicke’s area | language comprehension, specifically speech sounds | temporal lobe, left hemisphere |
| angular gyrus | attention, self-processing, semantic information processing, emotion regulation, mentalizing | parietal lobe, left and right hemispheres |