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16 Cards in this Set
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Medulla |
regulates heart rate and breathing |
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Pons |
controls coordination and balance |
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Reticular Formation |
how awake you are; pain perception |
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Thalamus |
switchboard for your sensory input; all senses except smell |
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Cerebellum |
regulates memory: procedural and associative; processes sensory input and coordination movement output and balance |
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Hippocampus |
houses memory |
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Amygdala |
controls "fight or flight" response; aggression/ fear |
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Hypothalamus |
reward centers; controls hunger; regulates body temperature |
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Cerebrum |
big thinking; body's ultimate control and info-processing center |
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Temporal Lobe |
controls sound |
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Parietal Lobe |
controls touch |
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Occipital Lobe |
controls sight |
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Frontal Lobe |
brain's filter; organizes thought |
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Broca's Lobe |
controls language expression that directs the muscle movements involved in speech |
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Angular Gyrus |
comprehension of language as well as auditory stimuli and memory retrieval; involved with number processing (damage to it can cause a person to have difficulty with math); involved in visual-spatial capabilities including the perception of left and right |
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Wernike's Area |
important for language development; comprehension of speech |
