Lobes

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

-Responsible for sophisticated mental abilities
e.g Reasoning, problem solving, decision making, emotional regulation
-Prefrontal cortex : plans movement
-Premotor cortex : organizes movement sequences
-Primary motor cortex : produces specific movements

Question 2

Frontal lobe (Broca area)

Answer 2

-A small area in the front of the left primary motor cortex
-Important to produce articulate speech
-Involved with language
-Main purpose is to coordinate the message to the lips, tongue, vocal chords and jaws allowing speech to be produced

Question 3

Parietal lobe

Answer 3

-Receives and processes bodily somatosensory info such as temp, touch and position of body parts
-Primary somatosensory cortex: Receives and processes sensory information (works contrarily)

Question 4

Occipital lobe

Answer 4

-Primary visual cortex is located at the back of the occipital lobe
-Responsible for processing vision
-sensory info from the eyes are not completely contralateral

Question 5

Temporal lobe

Answer 5

-Involved with auditory perception
-plays and important part in memory, identifying faces or objects and responses to sensory info
-Primary auditory cortex recieves and processes sound.
Wernicke’s area : crucial for comprehending sounds of human speech