Brain lobe functions Flashcards
Frontal lobe
Formal and abstract thought, emotion regulation, cognition, self awareness
Parietal lobe
Sensory perception and integration of multiple sensory modalities
Occipital lobe
Vision and visual processing, memory and recognition, visual processing of words
Frontal lobe contains
Motor cortex
Parietal lobe contains
Primary somatosensory cortex, somatosensory association cortex, posterior association area
Primary somatosensory cortex
awareness of somatic sensations
Somatosensory association cortex
processing and analyzing somatic sensations
Posterior association area
visual, auditory, somatosensory areas meet
Occipital lobe contains
Primary visual cortex, visual association cortex,
Primary visual cortex
awareness of visual stimuli
Visual association cortex
Process and analyze visual information
Temporal lobe contains
Primary auditory cortex, auditory association cortex, Wenicke’s area, primary olfactory cortex/association cortex
Primary auditory cortex
Integrates and processes auditory signals, language comprehension
Auditory association cortex
Speech perception
Wenicke’s area
Speech production
