What’s on the Brain Structures poster
A 9-row table: Structure · Associated with.
Grouped by region.
- Prefrontal cortex — Planning, inhibition, working memory
- Motor cortex — Voluntary movement
- Somatosensory cortex — Touch and body sense
- Visual cortex — Vision — occipital lobe
- Hippocampus — Forming new episodic memories
- Amygdala — Threat detection, fear learning
- Hypothalamus — Homeostasis, hormones, drives
- Cerebellum — Coordination, timing, some learning
- Brainstem — Breathing, heart rate, arousal
Patient HM: bilateral hippocampal removal abolished new episodic memory while leaving procedural learning intact.
Questions about the Brain Structures poster
- What’s on the Brain Structures poster?
- A 9-row table: Structure · Associated with. Grouped by region. Prefrontal cortex — Planning, inhibition, working memory; Motor cortex — Voluntary movement; Somatosensory cortex — Touch and body sense; Visual cortex — Vision — occipital lobe; Hippocampus — Forming new episodic memories; Amygdala — Threat detection, fear learning; Hypothalamus — Homeostasis, hormones, drives; Cerebellum — Coordination, timing, some learning; Brainstem — Breathing, heart rate, arousal. Patient HM: bilateral hippocampal removal abolished new episodic memory while leaving procedural learning intact.
- Who is the Brain Structures poster for?
- Brain Structures belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning biological can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Brain Structures poster?
- No structure works alone. These are the areas most implicated, not exclusive assignments. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Brain Structures belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Brain Structures?
- Localisation of Function, Biological Rhythms and Brain Imaging sit alongside Brain Structures in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Localisation of FunctionBiological RhythmsBrain Imaging
- Is the Brain Structures poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Brain Structures downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Brain Structures poster print at?
- Brain Structures is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Brain Structures loses nothing.Printing guide
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