Parts of the Brain

5. transmits signals between your forebrain and cerebellum
11. regulate your breathing, heart rhythms, blood pressure and swallowing.
13. important for voluntary movement, expressive language and for managing higher level executive functions.
14. relays motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex. It also regulates sleep, alertness, and wakefulness.
15. plays a role in managing your emotions, processing information from your senses, storing and retrieving memories, and understanding language.
16. processing auditory information and the encoding of memory.
17. detects shifts in balance and movement, coordinates body + eye movements

1. responsible for visual perception, including colour, form and motion.
2. memory, learning, and emotion. Its largest job is to hold short-term memories and transfer them to long-term storage in our brains. It also plays a role in emotional processing, including anxiety and avoidance behaviors.
3. a thick muscle that serves as a conduit allowing information to transmit from one side of the brain to the other
4. responsible primarily motor control, as well as other roles such as motor learning, executive functions and behaviors, and emotions.
6. responsible for emotional processing, especially fear and anxiety.
7. intelligently regulates our thoughts, actions and emotions through extensive connections with other brain regions
8. produces hormones that regulate body temp, heart rate, hunger, mood, etc. to keep your body in homeostasis
9. functions as a relay system, transmitting information necessary for vision and hearing
10. the largest part of the brain. It is responsible for memory, speech, the senses, and emotional response.
12. processes sensations of touch and assembles sensory information into a useful form. Contains the somatosensory cortex and the