Frontal Lobes
The main functions of the frontal lobes include:
- The ability to recognize consequences that result from actions.
- Choosing from good and bad actions
- Suppressing socially unacceptable responses
- Determining similarities and differences between different things and events
Temporal Lobe
- Involved in auditory perception.
- Home to the primary auditory cortex (processes sound)
- Home of hearing, pitch, and volume
- Helps us understand the meaning in speech and vision.
- Plays a key role in long-term memory.
Occipital Lobe
- Contains the primary visual cortex
- Located in the back of the brain
- Processes visual information
Parietal Lobe
- Combines sensory information from different parts of the body
- Controls the understanding of numbers and their relationships.
- Contributes to knowing how to operate or work objects.
Wernicke's Area
- One of the two parts of the cerebral cortex
- Involved in the understanding of written and spoken language.
- That link associated the sensory and motor images of spoken words.
Broca's Area
- Most important role is in language comprehension and production.
- Involved in cognitive and perceptual (ability to interpret) tasks
- Plays a key role in speech-associated gestures
- Without Broca's Area of the brain, we wouldn't be able to comprehend and form words properly.