Takes in all sensory information

Processes visual information

Concerned with arousal, attention, and sleep

Concerned with all of our automatic funtioning

Controls fine motor functioning and balance

Outside covering is the cortex, inside is the limbic system

Processes information on pain, touch, temperature, and pressure

Located where the spinal cord goes into the cranium

Separates us as human beings

Allows us to speak

Involved in speech production, logical and rational thought, and has the ability to understand and plan the future

Important in the processing of short-term memories into long term memories

Interprets muscular sensations

Made up of the corpus colossal, the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala

A band of nerve fibers that hold the left and right hemispheres together

A relay center for the brain

Processes auditory information, emotion, and has a part in memory

Divided into four lobes

Controls all of our drives, ie. hunger, thirst, and sex

Coordinates all of the information coming in from our senses

Adds emotion to memories

Allows us to understand what is said to us