Basic Brain Functions

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Across
  1. 2. Largest Part of the brain and its functions are learning, logic, personality
  2. 5. Folds and grooved of cerebral cortex, functions: increase the surface area and recognition ability, forms boundaries between different divisions of the brain
  3. 8. Controls the left side of the body, spacial abilities/ 3D, holistic view, recognizing faces
  4. 9. Made of cell bodies and dendrites, functions: processing of information, speech, recognition, perception
  5. 10. Interpretation and processing visual information and sends it to other parts of the brain for further processing, light, color, and movement
  6. 12. Consists of gray matter, wrinkled appearance, and its key roles are: memory, thinking, stress
Down
  1. 1. Receives and processes auditory info, language comprehension, facial recognition, regulates memory creation and memory storage, emotions
  2. 3. Ridges and bumps of cerebral cortex
  3. 4. Touch, pain, temperature, orientation in space, role in interpretation of language and words
  4. 6. Bundle of nerve fibers, myelinated fibers, connect the two hemispheres, helps coordinate language, memory, movement, problem solving, reasoning
  5. 7. Consists of axons wrapped in myelin, functions: allows for exchange of information between different areas of the brain
  6. 11. Front of the brain, last to develop, executive functioning skills, voluntary movement, abstract reasoning, personality
  7. 13. Controls the right side of the body, language/speech, analytical thinking, logic/reasoning, linear thinking