Question: How many different parts of the brain do we have?

Emma Ross answered on 17 Jun 2013:

The brain is the central processing system in the human body and helps to co-ordinate, communicate and maintain many of the vital functions and processes, including consciousness, emotions and behavior. The brain is able to process loads of information and perform its tasks by being divided into several regions. There are 5 importnat regions called the cerebral cortex, brain stem, cerebellum, diencephalon and the limbic system.

The area of the brain that I study is the cerebral cortex which contains several important ‘lobes’ which are different areas responsible for different functions, like the the frontal lobe which is responsible for processing information involved with decision making, solving problems and planning, the parietal lobe which processes sensory and motor information from the body. The temporal lobe processes information about speech, language, hearing and memory and the occipital lobe is mainly responsible for vision.