Imagine watching a bird fly across your line of vision. What part of your brain is active in keeping an image of the moving bird on your retina? You have just eaten a medium-sized pepperoni pizza and are now lying down to digest it. Which cranial nerve stimulates the muscular activity of your digestive tract? A child is preoccupied with a large cherry lollipop. What part of the child\'s brain is responsible for the licking and eating reflexes? A patient is brought into the emergency department with severe whiplash. He is not breathing and has lost cardiac function. What pan of the brain has most likely been damaged? A woman is admitted to the hospital with Bell\'s palsy caused by an inflamed facial nerve. What symptoms will you, as the attending physician, observe, and how would you test her facial nerve? Solution Watching a flying bird makes the central executive portion of the prefrontal cortex of the brain active and stores as short-term memory. Cranial nerve X is associated with the activation of digestive tract. Mammilary bodies placed in the diencephalon, responsible for such reflexes. Breathing and cardiac function regulates by medulla oblongata of the brain. That has damaged for the patient..