Brain, unit 2
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- Cerebral Cortex
- Dircts the brains higher cognitive and emotinal function
- Frontal Lobe
- motor control, last to develope, cognitive activities: planning, making decisions
- Occiptal Lobe
- processes visual info
- Parietal Lobe
- Sensory processes, spatial interpretation
- Temporal Lobe
- Auditory perception, language comprehension, visual recognition
- Thalamus
- Interprets sensory information
- pons
- triggers dreaming and waking up from sleep
- reticular formation
- signals the cerebral cortex to attend to new stimulation and to remain alert even during sleep
- medulla oblongata
- center for breathing, waking, sleeping, and heart beat
- the limbic system
- regions mediate motivated behaviors
- hippocampus
- learning and memory
- amygdala
- aggression, eating, drinking, and sexual behavior
- Hypothalamus
- monitors glucose, salt, blood pressure, and hormones
- Central nervous system
- Includes brain and spinal cord
- Peripheral nervous system
- contains all of the nerves which feed into the brain and spinal cord
- Somatic nervous system
- division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles
- autonomic nervous system
- controls internal organs such as the heart
- sympathetic nervous system
- division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing it's energy in stressful situations
- parasympathetic nervous system
- calms the body