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Amygdala
Involved in emotional processing, fear responses, and memory formation.
Temporal Lobe
Involved in auditory processing, comprehension, and memory.
Wernicke's Area
Involved in language comprehension.
Brainstem
Controls basic life functions such as breathing, heart rate, and sleep cycles.
Hippocampus
Crucial for the formation of new memories and spatial navigation.
Hypothalamus
Regulates autonomic nervous system and endocrine functions, controls hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
Frontal Lobe
Involved in problem solving, emotion regulation, planning, and voluntary movement.
Prefrontal Cortex
Involved in complex behaviors such as planning, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior.
Parietal Lobe
Processes sensory information, including touch, temperature, and pain.
Basal Ganglia
Associated with movement control, procedural learning, routine behaviors/habits, and emotion.
Broca's Area
Associated with speech production and language comprehension.
Insula
Involved in consciousness, emotion, and homeostasis.
Thalamus
Relays sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex.
Cerebellum
Coordinates voluntary movements, balance, and posture.
Occipital Lobe
Primary area for processing visual information.
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