When the medallion is viewed sideways, the cave in which Infinito is encased resembles the diagram of the human brain. The thalamus corresponds to the monstrance in Infinito's left hand. It is that central part of the brain responsible for "relaying sensory and motor signals, and regulating consciousness and alertness".
The tip of the frontal lobe has wings, suggesting the ability to do astral travel.
Infinito's right finger is inserted for baptism between the frontal lobe and the temporal lobes. The frontal lobe covers movement, language and other executive functions such as "the capacity to plan, organise, initiate, self-monitor and control one's responses in order to achieve a goal". The temporal lobes, on the other hand, are "associated with processing auditory information, the encoding of memory. They are also believed to play an important role in...visual perception". Magic, then, is projected to the outside from within between the frontal and temporal lobes.
Infinito's crown is located at the tip of the corpus callosum, which connects the left-brain hemisphere with the right-brain hemisphere and "ensures that ensures both sides of the brain can communicate and send signals to each other".
Infinito's feet straddle the cerebellum, which "helps with the coordination and movement related to motor skills, especially involving the hands and feet, and helps maintain posture, balance, and equilibrium", and the parietal lobe, which "controls sensory perception and integration, including the management of taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell, and is home to the brain's primary sensory area, a region where the brain interprets input from other areas of the body".
These, then, are the parts of the brain that are engaged in the performance of magic.
(Passages in quotation marks were Google-searched for functions of the parts of the brain.)
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