Brain Function Flashcards

Front

Cerebrum

Back

Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.

Front

Corpus callosum

Back

A broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

Front

Frontal lobes

Back

Responsible for many roles in behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage.

Front

Motor cortex

Back

Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles—the muscles we can move and control.

Front

Olfactory bulbs/tracts

Back

Receive information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain.

Front

Parietal lobes

Back

Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.

Front

Sensory cortex

Back

Responsible for sensing touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste.

Front

Occipital lobes

Back

Responsible for visual perception and involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.

Front

Visual cortex

Back

Responsible for the conscious perception of visual input.

Front

Optic nerves and chiasm

Back

Receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relay this information to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe.