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The cerebrum or telencephalon is the largest part of the brain containing the cerebral cortex of the two cerebral hemispheres. The cerebral cortex is generally classified into four lobes: the frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes. The lobes are classified based on their overlying neurocranial bones.
Frontal lobe - The frontal lobe contains most of the dopamine-delicate neurons in the cerebral cortex. The dopamine system is associated with reward, attention, short-term memory tasks, planning, and motivation.
Parietal lobe - The parietal lobe integrates sensory information, including spatial sense and navigation, proprioception and mechanoreception. The major sensory inputs from the skin (touch, temperature, and pain receptors), relay through the parietal lobe.
Occipital lobe - The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain. There are many extrastriate regions, and these are specialized for different visual tasks, such as visuospatial processing, color differentiation, and motion perception.
Temporal lobe - The temporal lobe is involved in processing sensory input into derived meanings for the appropriate retention of visual memories, language comprehension, emotion association, forming new memories and learning new things. |
