lobes of the brain Flashcards
occipital lobe
heavily involved in the processing of visual information and mental imagery (visual cortex)
parietal lobe
process somatosensory information (relating body to the environment), senses
sensory cortex
receives sensory information from all parts of body
temporal lobe
crucial to psychological function, including hearing and memory
auditory cortex
contributes to the processing of sound, and remembering facts and experiences
frontal lobe
particularly large in humans and enables distinctive human mental abilities such as self-reflection
motor cortex
sends out signals controlling the body’s muscular movements
association areas
receive sensory information from other regions of brain and connect it to memories and stored knowledge, enabling meaningful experiences
prefrontal cortex
behind the forehead, contributes ability to concentrate, focus attention, manipulate information, and align behavior