Frontal Lobe
The frontal lobe is the largest of the cerebral cortex and contains neurons that assist with a wide array of functions:
- Executive Functions: planning and organizing, memory and concentration, judgement and decision making
- Motor Control: voluntary movements of skeletal muscles
- Language: speech generation, comprehension of text
- Emotional Regulation: personality, deciphering emotions from others, controling impulses
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24501-frontal-lobe
Parietal Lobe
The parietal lobe is posterior to the frontal lobe, and superior to the temporal lobe. Its functions include:
- Sensory Integration: processes pain, touch, temperature, and pressure sensations
- Spatial Awareness: where body parts are in relation to each other, spatial orientation
- Motor Functions: movement and positions of body and object manipulation
- Langauage: processing language and abstract thought
- Math: Calculations
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24628-parietal-lobe
Temporal Lobe
The temporal lobe is posterior and inferior to the frontal and parietal lobes. Its functions include:
- Auditory Processing: sound interpretation
- Olfactory Processing: awareness of smell and smell differentiation
- Memory: storing long-term memories
- Language: comprehension of spoken words
- Emotion: processing emotions and using them to influence behavior
- Visual Recognition: recognizing faces and objects
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/16799-temporal-lobe
Occipital Lobe
The occipital lobe is the most posterior lobe of the cerebral cortex. Its functions include:
- Visual Processing: interprets visual impulses
- Depth/ Distance Perception: determining positions of objects in space and distance between them
- Object Recognition: identification and categorization of objects
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24498-occipital-lobe
Insula Lobe
The insula lobe is located deep to the other lobes of the cerebral cortex. It has a complex range of functions:
- Sensory Integration: internal and external sensory information processing
- Body Awareness: conscious sense of homeostatic needs such as hunger, thirst, pain, or fatigue
- Decision Making: integration of emotion and sensory information, risk and reward processing
- Motor Control: hand-eye coordination and swallowing
- Language: complex sentence formation
https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/scsnl/documents/insular_cortex_2024_menon.pdf
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Frontal Lobe
The frontal lobe is the largest of the cerebral cortex and contains neurons that assist with a wide array of functions:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24501-frontal-lobe
Parietal Lobe
The parietal lobe is posterior to the frontal lobe, and superior to the temporal lobe. Its functions include:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24628-parietal-lobe
Temporal Lobe
The temporal lobe is posterior and inferior to the frontal and parietal lobes. Its functions include:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/16799-temporal-lobe
Occipital Lobe
The occipital lobe is the most posterior lobe of the cerebral cortex. Its functions include:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24498-occipital-lobe
Insula Lobe
The insula lobe is located deep to the other lobes of the cerebral cortex. It has a complex range of functions:
https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/scsnl/documents/insular_cortex_2024_menon.pdf