NEUROSCIENCE

• Cognitive Neuroscience


  The discipline that connects the brain and other components of the nervous system to cognitive functions and, ultimately, behavior
• Brain


  The primary organ governing our thoughts, feelings, and motivations
• Forebrain


  • Vital for thinking, motor control
• Limbic System


  • Crucial for emotion, motivation, memory, and learning
• Basal Ganglia


  • Important for motor function
• Hippocampus


  • Essential for memory formation and spatial learning
• Thalamus


  • Relays sensory information to the cortex
• Hypothalamus


  • Regulates behaviors related to survival and emotions
• Midbrain


  • Regulates eye movement and coordination
• Brainstem


  • Connects forebrain to spinal cord
• Hindbrain components


  • Medulla oblongata
  • Pons
  • Cerebellum
• Medulla oblongata


  • Controls vital functions like heart activity, breathing, swallowing, and digestion
• Pons


  • Acts as a relay station for neural signals and contains part of the Reticular Activating System
• Broca's area


  • Responsible for language production
• Wernicke's area


  • Responsible for language comprehension
• Frontal lobe


  • Associated with motor processing
• Parietal lobe


  • Involved in somatosensory processing, consciousness, attention, and perception of space
• Temporal lobe


  • Associated with auditory processing, language comprehension, and retention of visual memories
• Occipital lobe


  • Responsible for visual processing
• Dopamine


  Associated with attention, learning, and movement coordination
• Serotonin


  Plays a role in eating behavior and body-weight regulation