Parts of the Brain
Across
- 1. Supports perception of space, learning and navigation
- 3. Focuses on basic sensory reflexes
- 4. Responds to light and dark areas
- 7. Focuses on automatic survival functions, located near the spinal cord
- 9. Controls hormones from the adrenals, ovaries, and thyroid
- 11. Coordinates musce movement, and produces fluent speech
- 12. Responsible for understanding written and spoken language
- 13. Controls, balance, posture and motor commands
- 15. Used for intellegence and personality
- 17. Regulates body tempture, hunger, and sleep pattenrs
Down
- 2. Controls heartbeat, swallowing, and breathing
- 5. Located in temporal lobe, mainly used for hearing
- 6. Higher level thinking, language, perceptionm and voluntary movement
- 8. Relates sensory info to the brain
- 10. Controls breathing, heartbeat, and other basic functions
- 13. Connects the right and left hemispheres
- 14. Emotion and memory, associated with the brain's reward system
- 16. All senses except smell passes this part to be processed