The brain & Limbic system
What is the limbic system?
The brain's emotional thermostat regulates long term memory, emotions, and Hypothalamus control
Hippocampus function ? (Limbic)
"Grand Central station" of memory. It encodes info in long or short-term memory.
Amygdala function ? (Limbic)
Concerned with expression and regulation of emotions, motivation, fear response (fight or flight), and stress response.
Thalamus function ? (Limbic)
"Port authority" for all sensory info except smell. It takes the info and directs it to the correct part of your brain along with being the consciousness.
Hypothalamus function? (Limbic)
controls hunger, thirst, sleep, sexual emotions, and body emotions.
Prefrontal cortex function ? (Brain)
Critical thinking, personality traits/behaviour, attention/focus
frontal lobe function? (Brain)
Muscle movement, making plans and judgment, some speech, and sense of smell.
Parietal lobe function? (Brain)
Receives sensory input for touch and position, recognition and perception of stimuli, writing involved, and sensory processing.
Occipital lobe function? (Brain)
Having vision, color perception, visual memory, and reading.
Temporal lobe Function? (Brain)
Hearing, long-term memory, language processing, and identity.
Corpas callosum function? (Brain)
Carries left and right information to each other. Along with fibers connecting the left and right hemisphere
Cerebellum function? (Brain)
Coordinate muscle movement, balance/posture, and nonverbal learning.
Brain stem function? (Brain)
Controls cardiac and respiratory systems, and movement and senses to body with signals.