The Brain

5. biggest part of the brain; associated with touch, vision, emotions, hearing, speech, reasoning, higher control of movement, and learning
6. memory: Sometimes known as “autobiographical memory”; conscious memory for where something happened and when
9. a nerve cell, also called brain cell
12. System: an assortment of structures that are associated with memory, attention, and emotion
13. a learned response to an anticipated reaction or event
14. a neurotransmitter associated with mood
15. associated with muscle movements, balance, and maintaining posture
16. A neurotransmitter that helps with attention, learning, and memory
18. lobe: associated with interpreting verbal communication, sense of touch, pain or temperature, perception (height, space, etc.), and interpreting vision, hearing, motor, sensory, or memory signals
19. The long part of a nerve cell that sends out information to other cells

1. a small space in between neurons that neurotransmitter chemicals use to send messages
2. a chemical “runner” that brain cells use to communicate information with each other
3. making of new brain cells
4. lobe: associated with understanding words, with memory, hearing, and organization and ordering
7. a “happy” neurotransmitter that is associated with the brain’s reward system
8. sub consciousness
10. the wrinkled layers of the brain; also called gray matter
11. the communication junction that connects the brain and the spinal cord together
16. a structure in the limbic system always alert to problems and threats
17. lobes: part of the brain associated with conscious problem solving, emotional control, speech, body movement, personality, intelligence, self-awareness, and planning; most latest evolved portion of the brain