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Frontal Lobe
• Voluntary movements • Reasoning and decision making • Memory • Ability to predict consequences
Parietal
• Processing temperature, touch, taste, pain, and movement • Visual-spatial processing • Body positioning
Occipital
• Visual processing - Vison and memory of objects
Temporal
• Processing memory and linking them with sense • Receives auditory information • Comprehension and pronunciation • Sensation of smell
Medulla Oblangata
• Automatically adjusts body functions • All centres influenced and controlled hypothalamus • Reflexes;sneezing, coughing, etc • Cardiac center: regulates rate and force of heartbeats • Respitory: rate and depth of breathing
Cerebellum
• Posture, balance, fiber coordination of voluntary muscle movement; receives sensory information -> stretch receptors in skeletal muscle - Conscious control; body can work without it
Insula
• Recognition of different sense and emotions, addiction, and psychic disorders
Corpus Callosum
• Base of longitudinal fissure made of white matter • Large bundle of transverse fibers • Cross from one cerebral hemisphere to other • Allows communication
Cerebrum
• Outer surface of cerebral cortex • Contains 70% of neurons • Divided into four lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal ad occipital)