Lobes of the BRAIN

Function: personality, sense of self, executive (higher level) functions

Impairment: impaired vision

Ability to switch your attention back and forth between tasks

Which letter corresponds with the temporal lobe?

Compromise: difficulty with life functions such as breathing, swallowing, arousal

Function: coordination and control of voluntary movement, balance, and muscle tone

Defining the problem in right way, to analyze a situation and identify solutions

Compromise: difficulty naming objects, writing words, poor hand-eye coordination

Function: Auditory perception, long-term memory

Function: Tactile perception, integration of sensory information

The capacity for quickly switching between tasks

Process of reacting to / selecting a certain stimulus while several others occur simultaneously

Which letter corresponds with the frontal lobe?

Compromise: difficulty remembering names, understanding spoken language,

Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli (smell, touch, hearing, etc.) is known as:

Ability to focus on an activity or stimulus over a LONG period of time

Non-verbal communication, music and spacial recognition are typically controlled by the:

Brain’s ability to concentrate on a target stimulus for any period of time

The ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions and adapt to emotional situations

Compromise: changes in personality, loss of flexibility, difficulty in problem solving

Which letter corresponds with the parietal lobe?

Function: basic life functions

Function: visual perception

Which letter corresponds with the occipital lobe?

Memory for space-time episodes in life (autobiographical memory)

Which letter corresponds with the brainstem?

The ability to stop ongoing actions or behaviors

Ability to process two or more responses or react to two or more different demands simultaneously

Which letter corresponds with the cerebellum?

Memory for skills and habits (e.g. -- driving a car or riding a bike)

Language is typically controlled in the:

Memory recall of facts and general knowledge (facts, figures, trivia)