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(7) 1.5 The Brain

  • Cerebral Cortex

    • Wrinkled outer portion of the brain responsible for higher-level cognitive functions

  • Frontal Lobe

    • Thinking, planning, organizing, problem solving, emotions, behavior, & personality

      • Prefrontal cortex - Responsible for higher-level cognitive functions & executive functioning

        • Executive Functioning - Enable individuals to plan, organize, strategize, focus attention, & regulate emotions

  • Motor Cortex

    • Controls voluntary movements

  • Somatosensory Cortex

    • Sensations, touch, & temperature pain

  • Parietal Lobe

    • Perception, making sense of the world, math, & spelling

  • Occipital Lobe

    • Vision

  • Temporal Lobe

    • Memory understanding, speaking

  • Brainstem

    • Automatic survival functions

  • Medulla Obongata

    • Controls heartbeat, breathing, & blood pressure

  • Reticular Formation

    • Control arousal (alertness) and consciousness (sleep & wake cycles)

  • Thalamus

    • Receives information from our sense except smell & routes that information ot the correct brain region

  • Cerebellum

    • Processing sensory input, coordinating movement, balance & nonverbal learning/memory (skills)

  • Broca’s Area

    • Involved in speech production

      • located in left frontal lobe

  • Broca’s Aphasia

    • Difficulty in producing speech

  • Wernicke’s Area

    • Involved in comprehension & understanding of written & spoken language

  • Wernicke’s Aphasia

    • Difficulty expressing & understanding written & spoken words/languages