Statistics for Parts of the Brain

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Also known as the 'little brain'; involved in motor control	Cerebellum	76%
Associated with reasoning, planning and other 'higher functions'	Frontal Lobe	74%
Processes visual information	Occipital Lobe	66%
Controls homeostasis, thirst, hunger etc.	Hypothalamus	63%
Associated with emotion and fear	Amygdala	62%
Processes sounds and language	Temporal Lobe	62%
Simple structure which regulates breathing, heart rate and blood pressure	Brainstem	57%
Associated with movement and orientation	Parietal Lobe	57%
Associated with learning and (spatial) memory	Hippocampus	56%
Main branch that connects the brain to the rest of the body	Spinal Cord	52%
Sensory information arrives here and is then sent to the cortex	Thalamus	52%
Material which consists of the 'body' of neurons	Grey Matter	44%
The wrinkled outermost layer of the brain	Cerebral Cortex	42%
Bundle of neurons that connects the two hemispheres of the brain	Corpus Callosum	42%
Material which consists of the axons of neurons	White Matter	40%