pons, a structure in the brainstem that acts as a major nerve connection between different parts of the brain and the spinal cord., medulla oblongata, controls vital involuntary life functions like breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure, hippocampus, converts short-term memories into long-term memories and helps with spatial navigation., sensory cortex, receives and processes information from your senses and body parts so you can understand what you feel, see, hear, taste, and smell, occipital lobe, The occipital lobe processes visual signals from your eyes, frontal lobe, controls high-level thinking, voluntary movement, and personality., parietal lobe, processes sensory information like touch, temperature, and pain, and helps you understand where your body is in space, temporal lobe, process hearing, language, memory, and visual recognition, motor cortex, plan, control, and execute voluntary body movements., amygdala, process emotions, detect threats, and form emotional memories

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