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Parts of Brain
Parts of Brain and What They Do
Question | Answer |
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Frontal Lobe | Reasoning, planning, speech, movement, smell, peresonality |
When is the frontal lobe fully developed? | Not until between ages 18-21 |
Temporal Lobe | Deciphers sound, controls memory, language meaning, helps with senses |
Brain Stem | control involuntary actions, such as breathing, blinking, heart beat |
Cerebellum | Coordination and balance |
Occipital Lobe | Visual images |
Parietal Lobe | Senses (besides sight and smell), such as touch, pressure pain Calculating, reading/writing, attention |
Motor Cortex | Controls specific muscles/groups |
Thalmus | Receives messages from organs and relays info to parts of brain |
Hypothalmus | Control center to recognize hunger, thirst, fatigue, anger, body temperature; primitive brain |