Localisation Of Brain Function

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

1. Located around forehead.
2. Involved in thinking and creativity also linked with personality.
3. Concerned with emotions, planning, reasoning and our speech.
4. Damage: leads to changes in sexual habits, socialisation, attention and increased risk taking.

Question 2

Parietal Lobe

Answer 2

1. Located behind frontal lobe.
2. Processes nerve impulses and receive sensory information e.g. Temperature, touch, pain etc.
3. Damage: results in Gertsmanns Syndrome = includes left, right confusion and difficulties with writing and mathematics.

Question 3

Temporal lobe

Answer 3

1. Located either side of the brain.
2. Responsible for memory processing and processing auditory information.
3. Includes hippocampus.
4. Damage = leads to problems with memory and language skills.

Question 4

Occipital Lobe

Answer 4

1. Located at the back of the brain.
2. Receives information directly from the eyes and is concerned with visual processing.
3. Allows us to recognise objects.
4. Damage = causes visual problems, difficulty recognising objects, inability to identify colours and recognise words.

Question 5

Localisation of brain function.

Answer 5

1. Principle that certain areas of the brain are responsible for different functions.
2. They have specific objects or tasks to carry out.
3. Brain receives information from sensory organs and about position of the body. The cerebal cortex others brain and is responsible for higher order cognitive functions.

Question 6

Localisation of language

Answer 6

1. Specific areas of the brain linked to the processing of language.

Broca’s Area = Speech production.
Wernickes Area = understanding language.