Frontal Lobe
"forehead." High-order thinking and executive functioning. Judgement, planning, social interactions, and new memories.
Parietal Lobe
" Top rear."Receives sensory input for touch and body position.
Occipital Lobe
"Back bottom of head." Receives info from visual fields.
Temporal Lobe
Just above ears." Auditory areas, receive info from the opposite ear, enables language processing.
Motor Cortex
rear frontal lobe, controls voluntary movement.
Sensory Cortex
Front of parietal lobe. processes touch and taste, movement sensations.
Auditory Cortex
Temporal lobe, above ears. Receives info from ears.
Association Areas.
Involves learning, thinking, remembering and speaking.
Brocas Area
Left hemisphere, behind ear. encodes language/speech.
Wernicke's Area
Decodes speech.
Corpus Callosum
A wide band of neural fibers connecting both hemispheres and carrying messages between them.