Parietal Lobe

links: Neuroanatomy reference: 5-13-2021

Parietal Lobe #

• The partietal cortex plays a critical role in visuospatial processing that is involved in the resposne to threat.
• Left hemisphere: Solves problems conceptualized by the Frontal Lobe, like naming of objects, grammatical construction, mathematical processing; attention.
• Righ misphere: Spatial recognition; geometry
• Einstein’s sylvian fissure that divided the two hemispheres was oddly shaped and didn’t divide them. His parietal lobes were also symmetrical, whereas the left parietal lobe is usually smaller due to large language centers.