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Brain Lobes and Key Areas - Coggle Diagram
Brain Lobes and Key Areas
Frontal Lobe
Attention
Movement
Planning
Decision making
Personality
Primary Motor Cortex
Runs across the top of the head at the back of the frontal lobe.
Cortex is organised from the bottom to the top. This means that the body parts at the bottom of your body are at the top of the motor cortex.
Initiates and controls voluntary movement.
Broca's Area
Produces meaningful and articulate speech.
Sends messages to your lips, tongue, jaw and vocal cords.
In the frontal lobe.
Parietal lobe
Receives and processes sensory and spatial information. E.g. touch, and temperature as well as information about muscle movement.
Primary Somasensory Cortex
Receives and processes sensory information from body and skin.
Part of the parietal lobe.
Occipital lobe
Located at the rear of the brain.
Only processes visual information.
If the occipital lobe is damages it can result in severe damage to vision or blindness even if the the eyes are completely undamaged.
Primary Visual Cortex
Located at the back of each occipital lobe.
Each hemisphere processes half of the visual information.
Receives and processes visual information.
Temporal lobe
Recogniton
Hearing
Memory
Emotional responses
Wernicke's Area
Understanding speech and interpreting sounds of human speech. When you hear a word this is the part of the brain that processes it and helps you understand.
Located in the temporal lobe.
Primary Auditory Cortex
Processes auditory information. Receives the sounds from both ears so that we can perceive and identify different types of noises.
In the temporal lobe.
Thalamus
Underneath the cortex. Acts as a relay station for sensory and motor signals and also regulates sleep
Hypothalamus
Regulates hormones.
Cerebellum
"Little brain". Important for coordination and timing of movement. also plays a role in the proprioception.
Brainstem
All information moving between your brain and your body has to pass through the brainstem.
Contains 3 subregions: the medulla oblogngata, the pons and the midbrain.