What do parts of the brain do?

Answer 1

CEREBRAL CORTEX Frontal Lobe: Most anterior, right under the forehead.

Functions:

How we know what we are doing within our environment (Consciousness). How we initiate activity in response to our environment. Judgments we make about what occurs in our daily activities. Controls our emotional response. Controls our expressive language. Assigns meaning to the words we choose. Involves word associations.

Memory for habits and motor activities.

PARIETAL LOBE: near the back and top of the head.

Functions: Location for visual attention. Location for touch perception. Goal directed voluntary movements. Manipulation of objects. Integration of different senses that allows for understanding a single concept.

OCCIPITAL LOBE: Most posterior, at the back of the head.

Functions: Vision

TEMPORAL LOBES: Side of head above ears.

Functions: Hearing ability Memory acquisition. Some visual perceptions, Catagorization of objects.

BRAIN STEM: Deep in Brain, leads to spinal cord.

Functions: Breathing Heart Rate Swallowing Reflexes to seeing and hearing (Startle Response). Controls sweating, blood pressure, digestion, temperature (Autonomic Nervous System). Affects level of alertness. Ability to sleep. Sense of balance

CEREBELLUM: Located at the base of the skull.

Functions: Coordination of voluntary movement Balance and equilibrium Some memory for reflex motor acts.