Brain Function

Localizes and interprets see sensory inputs

• Cortex: Gray Matter

• Thalamus

• Midbrain

• Pons

Controls voluntary and skilled skeletal muscle activity.

• Medulla oblongata

• Hypothalamus

• Cortex

• Cerebellum

Acts in intellectual and emotional processing

• Pons

• Cortext

• Reticular formation

• midbrain

Subcortical motor centers help control skeletal muscle movements

• Thalamus

• Pons

• Cortex

• Basal nuclei (ganglia)

Relays sensory impulses to cerebral cortex

• Midbrain

• Cortex

• thalamus

• Hypothalamus

Relays impulses between cerebral motor cortex and lower motor centers

• pons

• thalamus

• hypothalamus

• Cerebellum

Involved in memory

• Cerebellum

• Pons

• Cortex

• Thalamus

Chief integration center of autonomic nervous system

• Hypothalamus

• Cerebellum

• Pons

• thalamus

Regulates body temperature, food intake, water balance, and thirst

• Pons

• Hypothalamus

• Thalamus

• Basal Nuclei

Regulates hormonal output of anterior pituitary glands and acts as an endocrine organ.

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

• Pons

• Cortex