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Parietal

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Senses and integrates sensations
Spatial awareness and perception
(Proprioception – Awareness of body/body parts in space and in relation to each other)

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Frontal

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Memory formation
Personality
Decision making/reasoning
Emotions
Movement
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Temporal

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Hearing
Organization/comprehension of language
Information Retrieval (Memory)

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Occipital

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Processing, integration, interpretation, ect. of vision and visual stimuli

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Insular

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Involved in taste processing

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Precentral gyrus

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Primary motor cortex

(controls contralateral movements, motor homunculus, area of voluntary controlled movements

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Postcentral gyrus

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Primary somatosensory cortex

Site involved with processing of tactile and proprioceptive information

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Broca’s Area

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Planning movement of mouth during speech and grammatical aspects of language

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Wernicke’s Area

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Responsible for language processing that enables series of sounds to be comprehendedas words

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Fornix

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Axons between hippocampus and mammillary body

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Amygdala

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Emotions and Drives

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