Brain Parts + Functions

• Cerebrum:

  • Made of 2 hemispheres + 4 lobes
  • Responsible for thinking, memory, and voluntary muscle control
• Corpus callosum connects and allows the 2 halves of the brain to communicate
• Frontal lobes are responsible for thinking, thought processing, emotions, control of voluntary movement, speech and language processing, decision making, reasoning, and planning
• Motor cortex is responsible for movement
• Olfactory bulbs are responsible for the sense of smell
• Parietal lobes process information about temperature, touch, taste, pain, movement, and the 5 senses
• Occipital lobes are responsible for vision
• Temporal lobes are responsible for memories, hearing (contains auditory cortex), interpreting sounds, and making sounds
• Auditory cortex is responsible for hearing
• Cerebellum is responsible for coordination and balance
• Brainstem controls involuntary muscles and movements like breathing, reflexes, digestion muscles, and heart beating
• Pituitary/hypothalamus are responsible for hormones, specifically those connected to growth and maturation