Brain Anatomy Physiology

Involved in controlling attention, spatial perception and sensory information, for example: touch, pressure and pain.

• Occipital lobe

• Parietal lobe

• Frontal lobe

• Temporal lobe

The part of the brain that controls higher mental activities such as learning, perception, memory  and making decisions.

• cerebellum
• cerebrum
• thalamus
• midbrain

The part of the brain that controls coordination, balance, and equilibrium

• cerebrum
• thalamus
• cerebellum
• medulla oblongata

Groove that separates the two hemispheres

• longitudinal fissure

• transvere fissure

• corpus callosum

• hippocampus

Lobe involved with making decisions, planning, reasoning, and carring out voluntary body movements.

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Receives and processes  auditory information and involved in language comprehension?

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

The amygdala, the hypothalamus and the hippocampus are all associated with the

• limbic system

• cerebral cortex

• brainstem

• pituitary gland

Alicia suffered a brain disease that destroyed major portions of her temporal lobes. Alicia is most likely to suffer some loss of:

• AUDITORY PERCEPTION
• THIRST AND HUNGER
• PAIN SENSATIONS
• MUSCULAR COORDINATION

Seeing is to hearing as the ________ lobes are to the _______ lobes. 

• FRONTAL , TEMPORAL
• OCCIPITAL, PARIETAL
• FRONTAL, PARIETAL
• OCCIPITAL, TEMPORAL

A young man was referred to a neurosurgeon after his frequent bouts of aggression could not be controlled. Diagnostic tests found an inoperable tumor in which location?

• PONS

• AMYGDALA

• PITUITARY GLAND

• BROCA'S AREA