cerebellum

     

The cerebellum is a region of the brain that plays an important role in the integration of sensory perception an motor control. In order to coordinate motor control, there are many neural pathways linking the cerebellum with the cerebral motor cortex (which sends information to the muscles causing them to move) and the spinocerebellar tract (which provides proprioceptive feedback on the position of the body in space). The cerebellum integrates these pathways, like a train conductor, using the constant feedback on body position to fine-tune motor movements.

Trivia about cerebellum

  • The part of your brain that controls balance & coordination; by age 2 it's almost fully grown
  • This portion of the brain coordinates voluntary movements & balance
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew identifies one section of a plastinated human brain.) This part of the brain, whose name means "little brain", coordinates muscular movement
  • This part of the brain just above the brain stem is about the size of an orange
  • The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance

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