Anatomy of the Brain

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Receives sensory input for touch and body position

• Parietal Lobe
• Frontal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Controls hearing, speaking coherently, and comprehension

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

Processes visual information

• Frontal Lobe
• Temporal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Parietal Lobe

A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe.  What might happen to her?

• reduced planning abilities
• deafness
• coma
• blindness

Identify the lobe of the brain

• frontal
• temporal
• occipital
• parietal

Identify the lobe of the brain

• frontal
• temporal
• occipital
• parietal

Separates the Frontal from the Parietal Lobes

• Lateral Sulcus
• Central Sulcus
• Longitudinal Fissure
• Postcentral Gyrus

What is this?

• Precentral Gyrus
• Postcentral Gyrus
• Central Gyrus
• Parietal Gyrus

What is this?

• Precentral Gyrus
• Postcentral Gyrus
• Central Gyrus
• Frontal Gyrus