Brain

Evelyn Felix

Chapter Essay #2

Section #8022

July 15, 2010

The Brain

The brain is the most complex organ in the body. It is the organ that allows us to think, have emotions,move, and even dream. The cortex can be divided into four main lobes. The frontal lobe, where you do your heavy thinking, pondering and planning your actions; temporal cortex, where you process sounds andform memories; occipital cortex, where you process all the things that you see; and parietal cortex, where you integrate or makes sense of all of the different bits of information that are bombardingyour brain.
Lobe Function
|Frontal Lobe |Awareness, attention & concentration, memory, cognition, motivation, judgment, voluntary |
||movement, expressive language, memory for habits & motor activities, emotional control & |
| |impulse control, word associations, ability tofollow instructions, decision making, |
| |personality, and assigns meanings to words we choose. (Stephen L. Gardens) |
|Parietal Lobes|Visual attention, awareness of spatial relationships, touch, recognition of faces, |
| |goal-directed voluntary movements,manipulation of objects, and integration of different |
| |senses that allows for understanding a single concept. (Stephen L. Gardens) ||Occipital Lobe |Visual perception, visual input, reading (perception & recognition of words), and movement of|
| |eyes. (Stephen L. Gardens)|
|Temporal Lobes |Hearing, music, & receptive language, comprehension of language, memory acquisition,...