The Brain

I needed a 'cheat sheet' for the brain so I thought I'd share it on the blog as well. Please add where you feel is important.....

Cerebral cortex (asymmetrical)– emotional responses, consciousness, judgments, decisions, memory for habits, and motor activities (gray matters in the outer cerebral hemisphere)

Left hemisphere – language, math, reasoning, rhythmic tasks, absolute pitch

Right hemisphere – holistic functioning, melodic contour

Corpus Callosum – connects right and left hemispheres

Parietal lobe – visual, touch perception

Occipital lobes – vision

Temporal lobes (one on either side)– distinguish between different sounds, smells, short-term memory, sotring new information

Right lobe – visual memory

Left lobe – verbal memory

Brain stem – breathing, heart rate, swallowing, reflexes to seeing and hearing, blood pressure, digestion, temperature, ability to sleep

Vestibular – sense of balance

Cerrebellum – coordination of voluntary movement, balance

Parietal lobe – sensory input processing, sensory discrimination

Frontal lobe – planning, prganziing, problem solving, personality