THE BRAIN

By Paddy Drake

Cerebellum

The cerebellum controls your movements. Your cerebellum controls how you swing the bat and make contact with the ball. Your cerebellum helps your fingers to play the piano, guitar or violin. It helps you balance when you jump and walk along curb.

Brain stem

The brain stem takes care of all the things that you do but don’t need to think about doing. It keeps your heart pumping blood. It keep your lungs breathing air. It makes you eyes blink. It pulls your hand back really fast if you touch a hot pot on the stove.

Frontal lobe

The frontal lobe of the brain are the most anterior, witch means they are positioned right behind your forehead and at the top-front of your head

Occipital lobe

The occipital lobe processes visual input that is sent to the brain from the retinas. The retinas project onto the posterior pole of the occipital lobe, called V1 (for visual area one), so that activity in different areas of V1 is related to whatever is in the image around your current point of gaze.

Temporal lobe

The brain's temporal lobe combines auditory and visual information. The superior (upper) and medial (central) aspect of the temporal lobe receives auditory input from the part of the thalamus that relays information from the ears.