The Brain

• Frontal Lobe


  intelligence, learning and problem solving skills, behaviour and personality, emotions and speech and writing skills
• Parietal lobe


  ability to make sense of the world, spatial awareness skills, facial recognition, mathematics and language skills
• Temporal lobe


  working memory formation (long and short term), auditory (hearing), emotions and language skills
• Occipital lobe


  vision
• Cerebellum


  coordination and balance
• Brainstem


  biorhythms for a normal life
• Brainstem: Midbrain


  various functions from hearing and movement to calculating responses and environmental change
• Brainstem: Pons


  origin for 4 of the 12 cranial nerves which enable a range of activities such as tear production, chewing, blinking, focusing, vision, balance, hearing and facial expressions
• Brainstem: medulla


  essential to survival. regulates many bodily activities including heart rhythm, breathing, blood flow, and oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Produces reflexive activities such as sneezing, vomitting, coughing and swallowing