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The activating system of the brain stem lights up when one receives sensory input (such as sound or taste) and it sends these signals to the cortex.

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Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Thanlamus

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While driving at night, the reticular formation helps with keeping you alert and aware of your surroundings.

When damaged, the reticular formation can cause changes in sexual arousal and disrupted sleep patterns.

Severe damage can cause you to fall into a coma by inhibiting your body's ability to wake up, and even more severe damage is fatal.

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Projects into thalamus and cerebral cortex that allow it to exert control over which sensory signals reach the cerebrum and come to our attention. Plays a role in general alertness and sleep.

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When it was hard for you to understand, listen and learn when multipe people were reading at once and people were making noise it is because there was to much sensory information for your reticular formation to pass on to the cerebrum.

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-Mid Brain and Hind Brain
-The reticular formation is a set of interconnected nuclei that are located throughout the brain stem. Its dorsal tegmental nuclei are in the mid brain while is central tegmental nuclei are in the pons and its central and inferior nuclei are found in the medulla.

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How does Reticular Formation Work with Other Components of the Brain?

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How does Reticular Formation Work with Other Components of the Brain?

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Connects the spinal cord to the brain and decides which signals are passed to the cerebrum and the cerebellum from the spinal cord , the cerebrum and the cerebellum processes the signals from the spinal cord and handles learning and memory, reticular formation also works with the thalamus which routes some of the signals that come in from the reticular formation to other parts of the Brian.

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controls which sensory signals reach the cerebrum and come to our attention.

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It affects what we pay attention, listen, stay alert and sleep.