Parietal lobe

In an article written by Alan Kingstone, Chris Friesen, and Michael Gazzaniga they are discussing a study about gaze reflection and reflexive joint attention. They used two similar people to conduct multiple experiments to test out their hypothesis. In the article, Reflexive Joint Attention Depends on Lateralized Cortical Connections, their hypothesis was that the reflexive attention in response to gaze direction correlates with the hemisphere specialized for processing faces. The people used…

The structure of the brain is constantly changing from birth throughout the lifetime. It states that as our brain ages we start to lose our memory, retrieve new information etc. Also, people usually who are above age sixty an experience in cognitive decline, for example: weaken memory loss, decision making, social skills, remembering, paying attention, problem solving, and unclear thoughts. The experience of cognitive and memory loss as aging affects our daily routine and can impact out…

the medulla oblongata, the pons, and the cerebellum. The cerebrum, the picture on the right hemisphere of the model’s brain, is the largest part of the brain and consists of four lobes; the frontal lobe (in purple) which is responsible for reasoning and planning, movement, emotion, and parts of speech, the parietal lobe (in blue) which is associated with movement and the processing…

that affect children who have dyslexia (Hudson, R. F., High, L., & Al Otaiba, S. (2007)). The frontal lobe regulates speech, reasoning, planning, emotions, and consciousness (Hudson, R. F., High, L., & Al Otaiba, S. (2007)). The frontal lobe is important because it helps organize, produce and manipulate speech and language (Hudson, R. F., High, L., & Al Otaiba, S. (2007)). The parietal lobe is responsible for connecting spoken and written language to memory (Hudson, R. F., High, L., & Al…

film. When he was shown the film , his brain lit up from activity . “Those might have been reflexive responses. But there seems to be more going on.” says Johnson . Owen says “ at all the critical twists and turns in the plot, Jeff’s frontal and parietal lobes responded exactly like those of a person who was conscious and aware.” Kate Bainbridge was shown pictures of her family while she was in the vegetative state, her brain responded as though a conscious patient would respond. Eventually she…

the sense that someone receives touching is determined by amount of pressure, vibration, and temperature via receptors of the skin. The brain processes tactile perception within the somatosensory system in the cerebral cortex, specifically the parietal lobe. Information…

What is a stroke? A stroke is a major medical emergency. It happens when the brain isn’t getting the oxygen that it needs, and the blood flow to your brain stops. This causes brain cells to die which can result in loss of memory, speech, and/or loss of movement. There are two different kinds of strokes, ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. An ischemic stroke happens when there is a blood clot that blocks a blood vessel in the brain, this is the most common type of stroke. Hemorrhagic stroke…

period, researchers divided the brain scans into 268 regions and looked at the neurological connectivity in the regions of the brain. While connectivity in some regions was similar for most participants, certain regions, such as the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes, were unique to that person. Interestingly, the unique nature of the person’s brain scans continued across both days of brain scanning. A brain scan of the same person doing the same task could be matched with 98-99 percent…

numerous other harmful effects (alcohol’s damaging effects). The guaranteed detriment of alcohol on the adult brain is astonishing, but the effects on the immature brain are staggering. The uncooked teenage brain contains undeveloped frontal and parietal lobes which aid in decision making and logic. This causes adolescents to make less than perfect decisions to begin with, but tainted with poisonous syrup, it becomes a breeding ground for alcohol abuse. If the human brain does not fully develop…

show high responses to auditory information (Marian & Shook, The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual, 2012). What is more is that in the brain, high proficiency in a second language shows higher volume in the parietal cortex where language is used. The parietal cortex is one of the four lobes in the brain and allows sensory information to be processed and the comprehension of language. However, if this part of the brain were damaged, humans would not be able to process sensory information or…