Brain Anatomy and Functions

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Across
  1. 2. speaking, planning, logic, personality, abstract thinking, problem-solving
  2. 4. white matter at the center of the brain connecting the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex
  3. 6. consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory.enables navigation
  4. 11. audition (hearing)
  5. 12. smell
  6. 15. sensory: touch and body position
  7. 16. includes the olfactory bulbs, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and amygdala.
  8. 18. deals with sensory information
  9. 19. relaying sensory and motor signals and the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness
Down
  1. 1. involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements.
  2. 3. Vision
  3. 5. primary role in the processing of memory, decision-making, and emotional reactions
  4. 7. key role in memory, attention, perception, awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.
  5. 8. crucial role in maintaining behavioral arousal and consciousness.
  6. 9. important role in motor control, involved in cognitive functions. its movement-related functions are the most solidly established.
  7. 10. controls body temperature, hunger, aspects of parenting, attachment behaviors, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms.
  8. 13. deals with the autonomic functions of breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure
  9. 14. deals primarily with sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder control, hearing, equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions, facial sensation, and posture.
  10. 17. controls mostly automatic functions