Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe

prefrontal cortex

frontal lobe

• decision making

• sense of self

• social cognition

• social emotions

broca’s area

left hemisphere of frontal lobe

• language production (speech)

• planning for language

premotor cortex

frontal lobe

• prepare for voluntary movement

• the planning before the movement happens

primary motor cortex

frontal lobe

• voluntary movement

• initiate movement

somatosensory cortex

parietal lobe

• conscious perception of tactile input

• conscious perception of being touched

L parietal hemisphere

left hemisphere of parietal lobe

• writing

• representation of mathematics

R parietal hemisphere

right hemisphere of parietal lobe

• visuospatial representation

• spatial mapping

• drawing and artistic ability

• mentally represent an object

• understanding of where things are in the world (cognitive maps)

primary auditory cortex

temporal lobe

• where we understand sound

• integrating and processing complex auditory information

• distinguish between similar sounds

wernicke’s area

left hemisphere of temporal lobe

• comprehensions of speech

fusiform gyrus

right hemisphere of the temporal lobe

• facial recognition

• where we recognition people based on their facial characteristics

primary visual cortex

occipital lobe

• initial conscious of processing visual stimuli

cerebral cortex

• grey matter (outercrust)

• most of the volume of the brain is pathways for which information can be passed through

• surface area of the brain