Lobes/Other Flashcards
Parietal
Senses and integrates sensations
Spatial awareness and perception
(Proprioception – Awareness of body/body parts in space and in relation to each other)
Frontal
Memory formation Personality Decision making/reasoning Emotions Movement
Temporal
Hearing
Organization/comprehension of language
Information Retrieval (Memory)
Occipital
Processing, integration, interpretation, ect. of vision and visual stimuli
Insular
Involved in taste processing
Precentral gyrus
Primary motor cortex
(controls contralateral movements, motor homunculus, area of voluntary controlled movements
Postcentral gyrus
Primary somatosensory cortex
Site involved with processing of tactile and proprioceptive information
Broca’s Area
Planning movement of mouth during speech and grammatical aspects of language
Wernicke’s Area
Responsible for language processing that enables series of sounds to be comprehendedas words
Fornix
Axons between hippocampus and mammillary body
Amygdala
Emotions and Drives