PLTW 2.4 MD The Control Center

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

• motor cortex

• Occipital lobes

• Thalamus

• Auditory cortex

Receive info about smells from the nose and send it to the brain

• Cerebellum

• Olfactory bulbs/tracts

• Visual Cortex

• Sensory cortex

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.

• Cerebellum

• Thalamus

• Corpus callosum

• Cerebrum

Responsible for the conscious perception of visual input.

• Corpus callosum

• Auditory Cortex

• Visual Cortex

• Motor cortex

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

• Occipital lobes

• Temporal lobes

• Parietal lobes

• Hupothalamus

Responsible for the conscious perception of sound

• Thalamus

• Auditory Cortex

• Sensory Cortex

• Hypothalamus

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

• Visual Cortex

• Optic nerves and chiasm

• Cerebellum

• Hypothalamus

Controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns, and other processes in our bodies that happen automatically.

• Thalamus

• Basal nuclei

• Hypothalamus

• Midbrain

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize and understand words and language. They are also involved in visual memory.

• temporal lobe

• occipital lobe

• parietal lobe

• frontal lobe

Carries messages from the sensory organs like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers to the cerebrum.

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

• Limbic system

• Midbrain