The Pinky and the BRAIN

FRONTAL LOBE "Emotional control centre & home to our personality"

• Motor function/initiation
Problem solving/judgement/decision making/reasoning
• Social and sexual behaviour/impulse control
• Spontaneity
• Memory
• Language

PARIETAL LOBE "What we feel & how we perceive"

1st functional area: Sensation and Perception

• Integrates sensory information to form a single perception

2nd functional area: Spatial coordinate system 

• Represents world around us

3rd Somatosensory cortex:

• Processing of nerve impulses related to: touch, pain, temp, taste, pressure etc (information from mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, nociceptors)

TEMPORAL LOBE 'Primary Organisation of Sensory Input'

• Hearing, Memory, Meaning, Language
• Interpreting and processing auditory stimuli
• Play a role in emotion and learning
• Recognition of words
• Memory of verbal material

OCCIPITAL LOBE 'Eyes in the back of our head'

• Brain's ability to recognise objects
• Vision

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