Station 1: Corpus Callosum

Function: allows the two cerebral hemispheres to communicate with one another

Station 2: Frontal Lobe

Function: Concerned with reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement (motor cortex), emotions, and problem-solving.

Station 3: Parietal Lobe

Function: Concerned with perception of stimuli related to touch, pressure, temperature and pain

Station 4: Occipital Lobe

Function: Concerned with visual processing

Station 5: Temporal Lobe

Function: Concerned with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli (hearing), memory, and speech

Station 6: Cerebral Cortex

Function: accounts for the sensations, voluntary movements, and thought processes that we associate with consciousness

Station 7: Thalamus

Function: 

• thalamus: receives sensory information for visual, auditory and somatosensory senses (all senses except for smell)

Station 8: Hypothalamus

Function:

• hypothalamus: regulates hunger, sleep, thirst, body temperature, and water balance

Station 9: Cerebellum

Function: balance, posture & body coordination – voluntary movements

Station 10: Brainstem

Function: 

• midbrain: acts as a relay station for tracts passing b/t the cerebrum & spinal cord

• pons: organizes and transmits sensory information from the body

• medulla oblongata: regulates involuntary body functions such as breathing, blood pressure, heart rate and swallowing.