lobes of the brain

Question 1

occipital lobe

Answer 1

heavily involved in the processing of visual information and mental imagery (visual cortex)

Question 2

parietal lobe

Answer 2

process somatosensory information (relating body to the environment), senses

Question 3

sensory cortex

Answer 3

receives sensory information from all parts of body

Question 4

temporal lobe

Answer 4

crucial to psychological function, including hearing and memory

Question 5

auditory cortex

Answer 5

contributes to the processing of sound, and remembering facts and experiences

Question 6

frontal lobe

Answer 6

particularly large in humans and enables distinctive human mental abilities such as self-reflection

Question 7

motor cortex

Answer 7

sends out signals controlling the body’s muscular movements

Question 8

association areas

Answer 8

receive sensory information from other regions of brain and connect it to memories and stored knowledge, enabling meaningful experiences

Question 9

prefrontal cortex

Answer 9

behind the forehead, contributes ability to concentrate, focus attention, manipulate information, and align behavior