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Parietal Lobe
Occipital Lobe
Hippocampus
Cerebellum
Spinal Cord
Frontal Lobe
Cingulate Gyrus
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Amygdala
Temporal Lobe
Frontal Lobe
Important for executive skills such as reasoning, decision-making, problem-solving, emotional regulation, impulse control, and awareness of self and others, as well as voluntary muscle movements.
Involved in sensory perception and integration, including the management of taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell. Plays a key role in proprioception, or your ability to know where your body is in space.
Parietal Lobes
Associated with processing auditory (heard) information and the encoding of memory, as well as recognizing familiar visual information, such as known persons and objects. A person’s dominant temporal lobe typically plays more of a role in understanding language and remembering verbal information, while the nondominant lobe processes nonverbal information, including music.
Temporal Lobes
Considered the visual processing center of the brain. Its primary tasks include visuospatial processing, distance and depth perception, color determination, object and face recognition, and memory formation.
Occipital Lobe
Part of the limbic system, involved in processing emotions and regulating behavior.
Cingulate Gyrus
Controls your fear response and plays a role in memory, communication, and processing other emotions.
Amygdala
Keeps your body in a stable state by managing body temperature, blood pressure, hunger and thirst, sleep, and more.
Hypothalamus
Responsible for memory and learning.
Hippocampus
Responsible for the coordination of movement, maintaining posture and balance, muscle tone, and motor learning. It also appears to play roles in learning new information, judging the size of or distance from objects, and sense of timing.
Cerebellum
Brainstem
Responsible for such vital functions as breathing, consciousness, blood pressure, heart rate, and sleep. Connects the brain to the spinal cord and sends messages back and forth from brain to body.
Brainstem
The spinal cord sends motor commands from the brain to the body, sends sensory information from the body to the brain, and coordinates reflexes, or involuntary movements.
Spinal Cord
Relays sensory and motor information from your body to your brain.
Thalamus
