brain

• Parts of the brain

  • Frontal
  • Temporal
  • Occipital
  • Parietal
  • Cerebellum
• Frontal lobe


  • Important for thinking, reasoning, decision-making and personality
• Temporal lobe


  • Helps with the emotions, memories, language and part of visual perception
• Occipital lobe


  • For visual perception of colour, form and motion
• Parietal lobe


  • For processing the sense of touch, heat, pressure, pain and spatial coordination (space between things)
• Cerebellum


  • Responsible for balance and motor movement and muscle memory
• Cerebrum


  Part of the brain, largest with 90% brain volume
• Cerebrum hemispheres

  • Right
  • Left
• Left cerebrum hemisphere


  • Controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic and writing
• Right cerebrum hemisphere


  • Controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic and musical skills
• Medulla


  Part of the brain, located where the brainstem is, connects the brain and the spinal cord
• Medulla


  • Important for nerve signal, controlling heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure