Supramarginal Gyrus Flashcards
Spatial Awareness: The supramarginal gyrus plays a role in spatial orientation and spatial awareness
It helps us perceive and understand the spatial relationships between objects and navigate our environment.
Sensory Integration: The supramarginal gyrus helps integrate sensory information from different modalities,
such as touch, vision, and proprioception (sense of body position). It helps us make sense of and coordinate information from different sensory systems.
Body Awareness: The supramarginal gyrus is involved in body awareness and proprioception.
It helps us perceive and understand the position and movement of our own body parts, contributing to our sense of self and body ownership.
Motor Planning: The supramarginal gyrus is involved in motor planning and coordination.
It helps us plan and execute complex motor tasks, such as reaching and grasping objects, and coordinating movements with sensory feedback.
Social Cognition: Recent research suggests that the supramarginal gyrus is involved in social cognition and empathy.
It plays a role in understanding and interpreting the emotions and intentions of others, as well as in perspective-taking and theory of mind.
Numerical Processing: The supramarginal gyrus is also involved in numerical processing and arithmetic.
It plays a role in tasks such as number recognition, numerical calculation, and estimation.
Parietal lobes play a critical role in constructing
personal identity and consciousness.
Parietal lobes contribute to attributing body parts
to oneself even without motor actions.
Activations in the parietal lobes are often more extensive
in the right hemisphere, which is important for body perception.
Prefrontal regions are necessary for analyzing one’s
reality and supporting other forms of awareness.
The right parietal lobe represents one’s body
while the left parietal lobe represents motor acts.
Attention and intention are involved in
achieving awareness of one’s subjective reality and a dynamic sense of the body.
The parietal lobes contribute to a sense
of agency and the perception of one’s own body in action.
