CNS Flashcard Essentials

Front

The center of visual perception

Back

Occipital lobe

Front

Processes hearing, language and helps us identify faces.

Back

Temporal lobe

Front

Functions include initiating voluntary movement, working memory, personality, and higher cognitive functions such as decision-making and judgment.

Back

Frontal lobe

Front

Responsible for integrating sensory information, including touch, temperature, pressure and pain.

Back

Parietal lobe

Front

Name the two major parts of the central nervous system.

Back

The spinal cord and the brain.

Front

A_______is what your body does in reaction to a stimuli.

Back

response

Front

The frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes make up the _______

Back

cerebrum.

Front

What is the main cell of the nervous system?

Back

neuron

Front

Occipital Lobe is responsible for:

Back

vision

Front

This part of the nervous system carries messages back and forth from the brain and the body.

Back

Spinal cord