Matching Pairs Brain Functions ReviewOnline version Match the structure with its function. by Carrie Miller-DeBoer 1 Corpus callosum 2 3 Hypothalamus 4 5 6 7 8 Thalamus 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize and understand words and language. They are also involved in visual memory. Point where the spinal cord connects with the brain. The brain stem takes in, sends out, and coordinates all of the brain's messages. It controls the body's vital functions, such as heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, and digestion. Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles, the muscles we can move and control. Receive information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain. Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory. Responsible for many roles in behavior and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage. Receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relay this information to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe. Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here. Responsible for visual perception and are involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory. Broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Responsible for the conscious perception of visible input. Responsible for balance, movement, and coordination. Responsible for the conscious perception of sound Responsible for the conscious perception of touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste. Controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns, and other processes in our body that happen automatically. Carries messages from the sensory organs like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers to the cerebellum.
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