Brain Lobes Flashcards
Frontal lobe
Personality characteristics, decision-making and movement. Also, recognition of smell and speech ability
Parietal lobe
The parietal lobe helps a person identify objects and understand spatial relationships. The parietal lobe is also involved in interpreting pain and touch in the body. The parietal lobe houses Wernicke’s area, which helps the brain understand spoken language.
Occipital lobe
The occipital lobe is the back part of the brain that is involved with vision.
Temporal lobe
The sides of the brain, temporal lobes are involved in short-term memory, speech, musical rhythm and some degree of smell recognition.
Brocha’s Area
Production of speech
Wernicke’s Area
Understanding of speech
Francis Galton
Nature vs Nurture, father of Differential Psychology
