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Brain Structure & Function Structure Function Central sulcus Separates frontal from parietal lobe Cerebellum Regulation and coordination of movement, posture, balance, rhythm Cerebral Cortex Frontal lobe Planning, reasoning, impulse control, personality Occipital lobe Vision Parietal lobe Orientation of body, perception of stimuli (e.g. touch, pain, temperature) Temporal lobe Hearing, speech, memory Choroid plexus Makes cerebral spinal fluid Corpus callosum Connects two hemispheres Splenium, body, genu Gray matter One of the two components of the central nervous system, mostly consists of cell bodies Hippocampus Learning and memory, spatial orientation Hypothalamus 4Fs (feeding, fleeing, fighting, making love) Lateral ventricle Filled with cerebral spinal fluid Longitudinal fissure Separates two hemispheres Medulla (oblongata) Maintaining vital body functions (e.g. breathing, heart beat) Olfactory bulb Sense olfactory stimuli Olfactory nerve (Cranial nerve 1) Conveys olfactory information from nose to brain Optic nerve (Cranial nerve 2) Conveys visual information from eyes to optic chiasm Optic tract Conveys visual information from optic chiasm to brain Pons Motor control, consciousness, alertness Primary motor cortex Execution of movement Primary sensory cortex Processing information about touch Spinal cord Conducts sensory information from body to brain, conducts motor information from brain to body Afferent fibers Communicate sensory information from body to brain Efferent fibers Communicate muscle information from brain to body Thalamus Relay station, brain region that combines information from different sensory systems White matter One of the two components of the central nervous system, mostly consists of myelinated axons http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/CNS.html http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html .

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