REGIONS OF THE BRAIN

Cerebral hemispheres (cerebrum) Diencephalon Brain stem Cerebellum

REGIONS OF THE BRAIN

CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES (CEREBRUM)

Paired (left and right) superior parts of the brain

Includes more than half of the brain mass

The surface is made of ridges (gyri) and grooves (sulci)

SURFACE LOBES OF CEREBRUM

Frontal lobe Parietal lobe Occipital lobe Temporal lobe

FRONTAL LOBE

Primary motor area Impulses to skeletal muscles Broca’s area – speech – sentence

forming

FRONTAL LOBE (LEFT)

Reasoning Planning Emotions Problem solving Premotor area

FRONTAL LOBE (RIGHT)

Creativity Art Music Ideas (eureka)

PARIETAL LOBE

Primary sensory (somatic) area

Receives impulses from the body’s sensory receptors

PARIETAL LOBE

Primary sensory (somatic) area

Receives impulses from the body’s sensory receptors

PARIETAL LOBE

Orientation Recognition Perception of stimuli

OCCIPITAL LOBE

Visual processing

TEMPORAL LOBE (LEFT)

Wernicke’s Area (understanding language)

Speech Hearing Smell

TEMPORAL LOBE (RIGHT)

Hearing Smell