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Cerebrum
Largest part of the brain divided into cerebral hemispheres by longitudinal fissure TERM 2
Diencephalon
DEFINITION 2 Region of the inner brain that includes the epithalamus, right and left thalami, and the hypothalamus. TERM 3
epithalamus
DEFINITION 3 Most superior segment of the diencephalon, contains the choroid plexus and the pineal gland TERM 4
thalamus
DEFINITION 4 Make up the right and left sides of the diencephalon, and together form the 3rd ventricle. Are sensory information relay and processing centers TERM 5
hypothalamus
DEFINITION 5 Make up the floor of the diencephalon, and contains the pituitary gland. Is a visual control center, involved with emotions, autonomic nervous system function, and hormone production.
brain stem
Consists of the mesencephalon, pons, and the medulla oblongata. Contains important processing centers and relays information to or from the cerebrum of the cerebellum. TERM 7
mesencephalon
DEFINITION 7 Process visual and auditory information, coordinates and directs reflexive somatic motor responses to stimuli, and maintains consciousness TERM 8
corpora quadrigemina
DEFINITION 8 Relay stations concerned with the processing of visual and auditory senses. Includes superior colliculi, receiving visual input from lateral geniculate, and inferior colliculi, receives auditory data from nuclei in medulla oblongata. TERM 9
cerebral peduncles
DEFINITION 9 nerve fiber bundles on the ventrolateral surfaces of the mesencephalon. TERM 10
pons
DEFINITION 10 Contains nuclei involved with somatic and visceral control. Connect the cerebellum to the brain stem
