PLTW : Brain Vocabulary

The most anterior part of the brain, located in the front area of the skull and consisting of two hemispheres, left and right.

• frontal lobe

• cerebrum

• temporal love

• brain stem

The part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.

• cerebrum

• frontal lobe

• occipital lobe

• cerebellum

The center trunk of the brain that continues downward to form the spinal cord.

• brain stem

• corpus callosum

• occipital lobe

• cerebellum

A broad band of nerves that connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum.

• corpus callosum

• cerebrum

• occipital lobe

• temporal lobe

play a large role in your behavior and personality, such as planning, voluntary muscle movements, mood, emotions, social interactions, and attention, and are also involved in memory retrieval and storage.

• parietal lobes

• frontal lobes

• occipital lobes

Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing (being able to tell where objects are in space), language, and memory.

• parietal lobe

• frontal lobe

• occipital lobe

• visual cortex

Primarily responsible for visual perception and are involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.

• parietal lobe

• brain stem

• occipital lobe

• thalamus

The part of the cerebral cortex that receives and processes sensory nerve input from the eyes.

• optic chiasm

• temporal lobe

• optic nerve

• visual cortex

A pair of nerves transmitting input signals to the brain from the retina at the back of the eye.

• optic nerve

• visual cortex

• temporal lobe

• olfactory bulb

The X-shaped structure formed at the point below the brain where the two optic nerves cross over each other.

• visual cortex

• optic nerve

• optic chiasm

• cerebral hemisphere