Area of Brain
1 Visual area
2 Association area
3 Motor functioning area:
4 Broca’s Area
5 Auditory Area
6 Emotional area:
7 Somatosensory Cortex
8 Olfactory area
9 Sensory area
10 Wernicke’s Area
11 Motor function area
12 Higher mental functions
13 Motor functions
Brain Stem
Function
Occipital Lobe:
Sight, image recognition, image perception
Temporal Lobe:
Short-term memory, equilibrium, emotions, hearing
and on left side language
Hippocampus located in this area: heavily associated
with memories
Initiation of voluntary muscles
Premotor cortex: chooses a muscle group for an action
primary motor cortex: sends signals to stimulate
muscles for action.
Suppletory motor cortex: controls movements requiring
2 muscle groups.
Muscles of speech production
Hearing
Limbic system:
Motivation, emotion, learning and memory,
Pain, hunger, “fight/flight/freeze” response
Sensory association area:
Smelling
Parietal Lobe: Somatosensory association area: maps
out sensory input and output to parts of the body. Being
able to sense your body in space.
Written and spoken language comprehension
Cerebral Cortex:
Eye movement and coordination
Frontal Lobe:
Prefrontal cortex: planning complex cognitive
behavior, personality, decision making, moderating
social behavior.
Motor Cortex: combines information received from
various lobes in brain to carry out body movements.
coordination of movement, balance and equilibrium,
posture.
Basal Ganglia: motor control involved in motor
learning, executive functions and behaviors, and
emotions.
Left
Hemisphere:
Analysis,
sequence,
speech,
processes
external
stimuli, time,
recognizes
words,
numbers,
letters
Right
Hemisphere:
Holistic,
patterns,
spatial, context
or language,
processes
internal
messages,
recognizes:
faces, places,
objects
Corpus callosum: runs down the
middle of the two hemispheres. It
is a bundle of nerve fibers that
connect two hemispheres
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