Brain Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 5. Involved in hearing and understanding language
- 9. Inability to create mental images
- 10. A condition where senses are blended, like seeing colours when hearing music
- 11. Processes touch, temperature, and spatial awareness
- 13. Responsible for understanding language; damage may cause fluent but meaningless speech
- 15. Connects the two brain hemispheres and allows them to communicate
- 16. Relay station that directs sensory information to the appropriate part of the brain
- 17. Coordinates balance, posture, and fine motor movement
Down
- 1. Important for forming new memories
- 2. Typically responsible for creativity, spatial ability, and recognising faces
- 3. Language disorder caused by brain damage
- 4. Controls vital functions like breathing, heart rate, and sleeping
- 6. Extremely vivid mental imagery
- 7. Controls speech production; damage may cause non-fluent aphasia
- 8. Responsible for visual processing
- 9. Processes emotions like fear and aggression
- 12. Typically responsible for language, logic, and analytical thinking
- 14. Controls voluntary movement and higher-order thinking like planning and decision-making