Brain Part Functions

Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.

• Motor cortex

• Corpus callosum

• Cerebrum

• Cerebellum

A broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

• Corpus callosum

• Cerebrum

• Cerebellum

• Temporal lobes

Responsible for many roles in behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage.

• Motor cortex

• Parietal lobes

• Frontal lobes

• Occipital lobes

Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles—the muscles we can move and control.

• Auditory cortex

• Cortex

• Sensory cortex

• Motor cortex

Receive information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain

• Temporal lobes

• Olfactory bulbs/tracts

• Sensory cortex

• Parietal lobes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.

• Auditory cortex

• Parietal lobes

• Olfactory bulbs/tracts

• Occipital lobes

Responsible for sensing touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste.

• Sensory cortex

• Olfactory bulbs/tracts

• Visual cortex

• Auditory cortex

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Responsible for visual perception and involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.

• Cerebellum

• Optic nerves and chiasm

• Occipital lobes

• Olfactory bulbs/tracts

Responsible for the conscious perception of visual input.

• Brain stem

• Motor cortex

• Auditory cortex

• Visual cortex

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relay this information to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe.

• Optic nerves and chiasm

• Auditory cortex

• Sensory cortex

• Parietal lobes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8