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Brain Pinkish-gray structure
that is located in the
cranial cavity.
Learning is acquiring new Represents 3% of total
knowledge, behaviors, skills, body weigh (apx. 3
values, preferences or pounds) It requires 20 %
understanding, and may involve of the body’s oxygen
synthesizing different types of supply. The primary
information. Wikipedia source of energy for the
brain is glucose.
The four cerebral the frontal, parietal,
lobes occipital, and
temporal.

Frontal PARIETAL Occipital
Controls voluntary muscle This lobe contains the visual area
movement, contains the receives and of the brain.
motor area for speech. It is interprets nerve
the site for moral values, impulses from the TEMPORAL
intellectual functions and sensory receptors for this lobe has the olfactory and
judgment pain, touch, heat, auditory area, and also the area
cold and balance for speech understanding and
comprehension. This lobe allows
us to translate toughs into words

Diencephalon Contains the
thalamus and the
hypothalamus

Thalamus Hypothalamus

Spherical mass of gray the hypothalamus
matter. It is found It is part of the limbic system.
deep inside of the Controls the following functions:
cerebral hemispheres. a) Cardiovascular control
Acts as a relay station b) Temperature control
for incoming and c) Appetite control
outgoing nerve d) Water balance
impulses e) Manufacture of oxytocin
f) Emotional state
g) Sleep control
h) Autonomic nervous control

Brain stem. The brain stem a) midbrain
controls vital b) Pons