Question

Identify each part of the nervous system associated with each of the following activities: (Correct answer is written in parentheses,)

Balancing on a tight rope (cerebellum)

Clapping your hands (pons)

Waking up when the alarm goes off (reticular formation)

Feeling hungry (hypothalamus)

Understanding your psychology professor’s lecture (Wernicke’s area)

Planning your route to drive home (frontal lobe)

Becoming enraged when someone cuts you in line (limbic system)

Talking on your cell phone (Broca’s area)

Hearing your favorite music group on your smartphone (auditory area)

Feeling drops of rain on your face (somatosensory area)

Seeing a traffic light change color (visual cortex)

Breathing while you sleep (medulla)

Pushing the “open” button on the computer when a page has downloaded (thalamus)

Answer 1

• Balancing on a tight rope (cerebellum)

Cerebellum is the part of hind brain and coordinates and control voluntary movements.

• Clapping your hands (motor cortex)

Motor cortex is the part of cerebral cortes, located at the back of frontal lobe. It regulates planning and control f movements such as claaping hands, smiles, etc.

• Waking up when the alarm goes off (reticular formation)

it is present throughout the brain stem. It regulated wakefulness and sleep.

• Feeling hungry (hypothalamus)

It is located near pituitary gland and responsible for the regulation of biological motivations such as hunger, thirst, etc and homeostasis of body.

• Understanding your psychology professor’s lecture (Wernicke’s area)

It is located in left temporal area, it responsible for the comprehension of speech.

• Planning your route to drive home (frontal lobes/motor cortex)

Frontal lobe controls all higher cognitive processes such as planning, decision- making, mental map, memory, etc and motor cortex is the part of frontal lobe that help to execute plan.

• Becoming enraged when someone cuts you in line (limbic system)

Limbic system is a structure consists of several parts, it is situated deep in frontal lobe. It is responsible for behavioral and emotional responses.

• Talking on your cell phone (Broca’s area)

This structure is located in left frontal lobe. It is responsible for the production of speech.

• Hearing your favorite music group on your smartphone (temporal lobe)

The temporal lobe is involved in processing sensory input into derived meanings for the appropriate retention of visual memory, language comprehension, and emotion association.

• Feeling drops of rain on your face (somatosensory area)

Somatosensory area is located at front side of parietal that responsible for senses of touch.

• Seeing a traffic light change color (visual cortex/Occipital lobe)

It is the visual processing center that consists of visual cortex.

• Breathing while you sleep (medulla)

Medulla is the long part of brain stem. It is responsible for life sustaining functions such as breathing, swallowing, sneezing.

• Pushing the “open” button on the computer when a page has downloaded (thalamus)

Thalamus is the relay station of brain.