Cerebrum: for sense perception, voluntary movements , learning, remembering, thinking, emotion, conciousness, personality integration.
Hypothalamus: control of visceral and somatic functions as temperature and metabolism.
Thalamus: the way station for impulses coming up the spinal cord to the cerebrum.
Midbrain: a conduction and switching center; pupillary light reflex
Cerebellum: for muscle tone, body balance, coordination of voluntary movements (as of fingers and thumb).
Medulla: has control over breathing, swallowing, digestion, heartbeat.
Reticular Formation: for the arousal and alertness of the organism, the change from the sleep to wakefulness.
Corpus Collosum: contains fibers connecting the two brain hemisphere
Brain Areas
Motor area: the body is represented in approximately upside-down movement form. Movements on the right side of the body originate thru stimulation of the left hemisphere.
Body-sense area: (in the parietal lobe) the lower extremeties are represented high on the area of the opposite hemisphere.
Visual area: (in the occpital lobe), damage in the left hemisphere will result in blind areas in the left side of both eyes.
Audiotary area: both ears are totally represented on both sides so thst loss of one temporal lobe has very little effect on hearing.
Speech area: the motor speech area (Broca's speech area) controls the tongue and jaws. It is located in the right hemisphere of the left handed person and vice versa - according to conventional interpretation.
Association areas: (areas of the brain not accounted for), bring together phenomena involving more than one sense.
Smell area: just below the frontal - near the temporal lobe.
Taste area: located behind the central fissure at the lower part of the side of the brain.
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