Psychology Study Material: Functions of the Various Structures of the Brain

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The Brain

The centre of the nervous system.
The vital organ that is responsible for the functions of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, thinking, feeling, remembering, speaking, dreaming, information processing, and a lot more.
The regulator of basic survival functions such as breathing, resting and feeding.
It is responsible for abstract level functions such as decision making, foresight, and problem solving.
The spinal cord is an information highway connecting the PNS to the brain.
Information travels to and from the brain by way of spinal cord.

The deeply grooved structure lies safely and securely in our skull.

The average adult human brain weighs 1.3 to 1.4 kg (approx. 3 pounds) .
If you look at it from the outside the brain is pinkish Gray in colour; soft, spongy, and mottled.
The brain contains billions of nerve cells (neurons) and trillions of “support cells” .

The brain is made of three main parts: