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Definitions
cerebellum coordinates body movement and maintains the
body's balance and equilibrium
frontal lobe controls many functions including movement,
memory, language, social behavior, problem solving, decision
making, emotion, and personality
parietal lobe interprets sensory information of touch, pressure,
temperature, and pain; involved with language comprehension
temporal lobe controls auditory perception, speech, language
comprehension, and visual recognition
occipital lobe processes visual information and controls
visual perception, including color recognition, sending the
information to the parietal and temporal lobes
corpus callosum connects and communicates between the
left and right sides of the brain
brain stem contains the medulla oblongata, pons, and
midbrain; connects the spinal cord and controls some
involuntary movements such as breathing and heart rate
hippocampus the part of the limbic system that involves
memory retention and spatial orientation
ventricles hollow chamber that contains cerebrospinal fluid
allowing it to move around the brain
insula interprets experiences of pain, disgust, happiness,
sadness, taste, and smell
corpus striatum connects the basal ganglia system with
the rest of the brain to coordinate functions such as motor
control, cognition, learning, and emotions
internal capsule contains fibers that connect the primary
sensory areas of the cortex with the rest of the nervous system
lentiform nucleus part of the basal ganglia composed of the
globus pallidus and the putamen, which aids in learning
reinforcement
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