brain stem - It is responsible for automatic survival functions. Include medula., medula oblonga - The base of the brainstem. Controls heartbeat and breathing., limbic system - Neural system that includes thalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala, thalamus - The brain's sensory control center that receives messages and then directs them to corresponding lobes in the brain., hippocampus - Processes explicit memory (conscious memory), amygdala - Linked to emotion (fear😨 and aggression😡), hypothalamus - Helps regulate the endocrine system., corpus callosum - a large bundle of more than 200 million myelinated nerve fibers that connect the two brain hemispheres, pons - Part of the brainstem that controls movement. Damage to pons causes a loss of sensation or motor control., Broca’s area - Deals with the production of language and speaking, Wernicke’s area - Deals with understanding language (comprehension), Roger Sperry - known for split-brain research; He found that the human brain has specialized functions on the right and left,

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