Brain Functions

The temporal lobe controls

• learning, memory, thinking

• learning, memory, and hearing

• language, feelings and hearing

• learning, behavior, and feelings

The frontal lobe controls

• memory, behavior, thinking

• memory, touch, movement 

• language, personality, thinking, memory

• movement, emotion, speech, smell, and personality

The brain stem controls automatic things like

• breathing, balance and heart rate

• temperature, breathing, and balance

• breathing, heart rate, and coordination

• temperature, breathing, and heart rate

The parietal lobe controls

• sense of touch

• language, feelings, and memory

• balance and coordination

• sense of touch, and movement

The occipital lobe controls

• vision and touch

• vision and hearing

• vision

• vision and balance

The cerebellum controls

• breathing, coordination and balance

• balance, coordination and temperature

• coordination and balance

• heart rate and coordination

After Greg's serious motorcycle accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum. Greg is most likely to have difficulty: 

• EXPERIENCING INTENSE EMOTIONS

• READING A BOOK

• PLAYING HIS GUITAR

• TASTING HIS FAVORITE FOODS

Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements

• Thalamus

• Reticular Formation

• Hypothalamus

• Cerebellum

Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information

• Forebrain

• Cerebral Cortex

• Corpus Callosum

• Cerebellum

Located in the hindbrain, this structure is responsible for coordinated movement and balance

• cerebellum

• medulla

• pons

• brain stem