Central nervous system
Brain and spinal cord
Peripheral nervous system
Everything else
Frontal lobe function
Thinking, planning, reasoning (motor area within frontal lobe)
Parietal lobe function
Receives sensory messages from rest of body: touch, pain, etc. and controls memory of objects and their uses
Temporal lobe function
Hearing, speech, and memory
Occipital lobe function
Vision
Primary visual cortex
Sulcus
Furrows of the convoluted cortex (valleys)
Gyrus
Ridges or raised portions of the convoluted cortex (hills)
Sulcus vs. fissure
A sulcus is a shallow groove that surrounds a gyrus
A fissure is a large furrow that divides the brain into lobes and hemispheres