The Brain and Nervous System

What does the occipital lobe do? (a)  

• memory formation
• planning
• initiating motor control
• processing visual information

What does the Frontal lobe do? (a)  

• process vision
• process sound
• integrate sensory information
• abstract thinking and planning

What does the temporal lobe do? (a)  

• process touch
• planning & abstract thinking
• process sound and speech
• allows you to see

What does the parietal lobe do? (a)  

• sends motor commands
• allows you to see
• allows you to hear
• integrates sensory information

What does the medulla do? (a)  

• controls heart rate and breathing
• controls sleep and wake cycles
• takes in sensory information
• controls voluntary movement

What does the amygdala do? (a)  

• controls heart rate
• directs sensory information
• regulates body temperature
• processes emotion

What does the cingulate gyrus do?

• secretes hormones

• processes fear & helps to avoid pain

• transfers short-term memory to long-term

• regulates hunger

What is the Corpus Callosum?

• the reward pathway

• a fluid-filled area of the brain

• bundle of white matter between hemispheres

• where sensory information is relayed

What does the hippocampus do? (a)  

• processes memories
• processes pain
• processes vision
• processes hearing

What does the thalamus do? (a)  

• voluntary motion
• regulates heart rate
• relays incoming sensory information
• memory formation