Frontal Lobe - Command center, decision making, judgement, problem solving, reasoning, language, planning, Temporal Lobe - Important for processing info related to hearing and auditory memory, Parietal Lobe - Processes certain sensory signals like touch, pressure, temperature and pain, Occipital Lobe - Associated with visuospatial processing, distance and depth perception, color determination, Motor Cortex - Helps control voluntary movements, Somatosensory Cortex - Detects sensory info from body such as temp, touch, texture, and pain, Corpus Callosum - Connects and facilitates communication between both hemispheres, Broca's Area - Essential in speech production, used as command center orchestrating complex muscle movements for articulating spoken words, Wernicke's Area - Plays role in comprehension of speech, Thalamus - Relay station between cortex and brain stem except smell, Hippocampus - Turning info into long-term memories, facts, and events, Hypothalamus - Survival drives for maintaining homeostasis alerts, body when too hot, cold, or hungry, Amygdala - Processing emotions and survival responses, "fight or flight", Medulla - Autonomic functions, Reticular Activating System - Reward system, movement, cognition, emotion, Pons - Regular sleep-wake cycle, breathing, Cerebellum - Muscle control, balance and movement,

Functions of the Brain Parts

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