brain project

Midbrain

Functions:

• Regulates eye movement
• Visual processing
• Auditory processing

Midbrain

Pons

Pons

Functions:

• Regulates breathing
• Relays information between both hemispheres of the brain
• Controls dreams

Medulla

Medulla

Functions:

• Helps regulate breathing
• Controls heartbeat
• Responsible for blood pressure

Cerebral Cortex

Functions:

• responsible for decision making
• associated with memory

Cerebral Cortex

Corpus Callosum

Functions:

• connects the two hemispheres of the brain
• ensures both sides of brain can communicate and send signals

Corpus Callosum

Thalamus

Thalamus

Functions:

• relays sensory and motor signals
• plays a part in consciousness and alertness

Hippocampus

Functions:

• responsible for long term memory
• plays a role in auditory memory

Hippocampus

Amygdala

Functions:

• linked to emotions of fear and anger
• activation of fear-related behaviors in response to threats

Amygdala

Pituitary Gland

Functions:

• secretion of hormones
• controls metabolism and growth

Pituitary Gland

Hypothalamus

Hypothalamus

Functions:

• in charge of acts such as eating, drinking, and body temperature
• plays a role in controling emotions

Spinal Cord

Functions:

• sends signals from your brain to your body
• responsible for feeling sensations and moving body

Spinal Cord

Frontal Lobe

Functions:

• responsible for voluntary movement
• responsible for problem solving and planning

Frontal

Lobe

Motor Strip

Motor Strip

Functions:

• controls muscle movement
• in left hemisphere, it controls the left side of the body and on the right hemisphere, it controls the right side of the body

Sensory Strip

Sensory Strip

Functions:

• recieves information from skin surface and sense organs
• responsible for feeling touch, pain, and temperature

Parietal Lobe

Functions:

• vital for sensory perception
• it manages taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell

Parietal Lobe

Occipital Lobe

Functions:

• responsible for visual perception
• responsible for distance and depth perception

Occipital Lobe

Cerebellum

Cerebellum

Functions:

• responsible for maintaining balance
• controls voluntary movement such as walking, posture, balance, and coordination

Temporal Lobe

Functions:

• processes auditory information
• plays a part in processing emotions and language

Temporal Lobe

Prefrontal Cortex

Prefrontal Cortex

Functions:

• plays a role in short-term memory
• responsible for personality expression, morality, decision making, and empathy

Broca's Area

Functions:

• helps in producing coherant speech
• produces language

Broca's Area

Wernicke's Area

Functions:

• language comprehension and processing
• understanding of spoken and written english

Wernicke's Area