Lobes Of The Brain Flashcards
temporal lobe
is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the human brain. It is located on the sides of the brain, adjacent to the temples, and plays a critical role in various functions, including:
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Auditory Processing**: The primary auditory cortex, located within the temporal lobe, is responsible for processing auditory information from the ears. It helps with tasks like hearing, sound recognition, and distinguishing between different sound frequencies
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Language Processing**: The temporal lobe is involved in language comprehension, especially in the left hemisphere for right-handed individuals. Wernicke’s area, located in the left posterior part of the temporal lobe, plays a key role in understanding and processing spoken and written language.
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Visual Object Recognition**: The temporal lobe, particularly the ventral stream or “what pathway,” is involved in recognizing and identifying visual objects, including faces and complex shapes. The fusiform face area, located in the fusiform gyrus of the temporal lobe, is associated with face recognition.
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Memory**: The temporal lobe, particularly the medial temporal lobe, plays a crucial role in forming and consolidating long-term memories. The hippocampus, which is part of the medial temporal lobe, is essential for creating and retrieving memories.
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Emotion**: The temporal lobe, in collaboration with other brain regions, is involved in the processing and regulation of emotions. The amygdala, situated within the temporal lobe, plays a central role in emotional processing, particularly the generation and recognition of emotions, particularly fear.
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Higher Cognitive Functions**: The temporal lobe is also implicated in higher cognitive functions, such as decision-making, object recognition, and memory integration. The anterior temporal lobe is associated with semantic memory, which is the knowledge of facts and concepts.
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Spatial Navigation**: Certain regions of the temporal lobe, especially the parahippocampal gyrus, contribute to spatial navigation and sense of direction
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Hearing and Music Perception**: In addition to basic auditory processing, the temporal lobe is involved in complex auditory functions, such as music perception and the appreciation of melodic and rhythmic patterns.
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*Social Cognition**: Some areas within the temporal lobe, especially the superior temporal gyrus, are associated with social cognition, including recognizing and interpreting social cues like facial expressions and tone of voice.
Temporal lobe
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“People with problems with the amygdala can have problems with controlling their temper and things like that,”
Temporal lobe
Those with temporal lobe epilepsy don’t usually experience the kind of seizure most people are familiar with — where someone collapses and convulses.
Instead, they experience partial seizures — when the person is still awake while their brain is seizing. In those instances, the signs of seizure can vary. Some stare off into space, blink or do another motion repeatedly.
Temporal lobe and Prefrontal cortex
Brain development in children with ADHD lags two to three years behind a normal brain, particularly in the prefrontal cortex and temporal lobes.
Temporal lobes
play an important role in helping you to recall words, remember places you’ve been, recognise people, understand language, and Interpret other people’s emotions.
Frontal lobe
frontal lobe is important for controlling attention, inhibition, emotions and complex learning
frontal and temporal lobes
They observed developmental lags in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brains of children stricken with severe poverty.
Temporal lobe
The research, from Max Planck Institute in Germany, revealed that the posterior superior temporal gyrus in our brain is responsible for voice recognition.
right posterior temporal lobe
The study showed that especially persons with lesions in certain areas of the right posterior temporal lobe experienced difficulties recognising voices.
key part of the brain involved in memory consolidation and storage,
the temporal lobe, located in the middle of the brain right behind the frontal lobe.
Temporal lobe
One of four main lobes in the cerebral cortex, it plays an important role in hearing, language, speech and memory association and formation
Temporal lobe and the hippocampus
Deep inside it is a sea horseshaped structure called the hippocampus, which is believed to help turn short-term memories into long-term ones. When this region is affected, it alters the person’s ability to create new memories, called anterograde amnesia.
TEMPORAL lobe seizures
TEMPORAL lobe seizures originate in the temporal lobes of your brain, which process emotions and are important for short-term memory
Prefrontal cortex
Improving the functionality of the prefrontal cortex involves a combination of lifestyle changes, mental exercises, and practices that promote brain health and cognitive function.
strategies that may help enhance prefrontal cortex function:
Aerobic Exercise
Mental Stimulation
Healthy Diet
Adequate Sleep
Stress Management
Limit Distractions
Mental Training
Limit Distractions
Continual Learning
Social Interaction
Mindfulness Meditation
Goal Setting and Planning
Damage pre-frontal cortex
ression, emotional stability and impulse control are maintained by two structures of the
brain — namely Amygdala and the pre-frontal cortex. Any changes in these areas either structurally or functionally can result in antisocial behaviour
WHY HARD THINKING MAKES YOU FEEL TIRED
when intense cognitive work is prolonged for several hours, it causes potentially toxic byproducts to build up in the part of the brain known as the prefrontal cortex.
left lateral prefrontal cortex
left lateral prefrontal cortex, actually plays a major role in a person’s ability to resist enticement of any object or service.
Brodmann areas 41 and 42
are parts of the primary auditory cortex. This is the first cortical destination of auditory information stemming from the thalamus. Neural activity in this brain part corresponds most strongly with the objective physical properties of a sound.
Post central gyrus
The postcentral gyrus lies in the parietal lobe, posterior to the central sulcus. It is the site of the primary somatosensory cortex. The somatosensory homunculus is the representation of the distribution of the contralateral body parts on the gyrus.
FMRI
This real-time fMRI study has the potential to change the reflexologist’s technique application to focus on particular reflex areas for optimizing treatment results and to establish a neurobiological basis for predicting treatment outcomes in patients with neurological disorders.
PARIETAL LOBE
Positioned at the back of the brain, the parietal lobe is referred to as the brain’s sensory area. It can be broken into two parts. One part is primarily concerned with perception and sensation and the other is involved with integrating sensory input.
OCCIPITAL LOBE
The smallest of the four lobes is positioned at the back of the skull. The occipital lobe is primarily concerned with controlling vision and visual processing. The functions of this lobe include: colour recognition, shape differentiation and many other visual processes.
Occipital lobe
The occipital lobe sits in the lower, back part of the brain. Containing the visual cortex, this lobe’s primary function is to process visual information. The parietal lobe lies above the occipital lobe, and its primary function is to integrate sensory information, such as vision, but also touch and sound. In doing so, the parietal lobe assembles elementary building bricks from so-called “lower-order” brain regions to create concepts
