March 20, 2014 

The Cerebral Cortex is made up of 4 Lobes:

• Frontal 
• Parietal
• Occipital
• Temporal

Frontal Lobes 

• Abstract thought and emotional control.
• Contains Motor Cortex: sends signals to our body controlling muscle movements 
• Contains Broca's Area: responsible for controlling muscles that produce speech. (Thoughts)
• Damage to Broca's Aphasia: unable to make movements to talk 

Parietal Lobes 

• Contain Sensory Cortex: receives incoming touch sensations from rest of the body. 
• Most of the parietal lobes are make up if Association Areas 

Association Areas 

• Any area not associated with receiving sensory information or coordinating muscle movements. 

Occipital Lobes

• Deals with vision 
• Contains Visual Cortex. Interprets messages from our eyes into images we can understand. 

Temporal Lobe 

• Process sound sensed by our ears. 
• Interpreted in Auditory Cortex. 
• not lateralized
• Contains Wernike's Area: interprets written & spoken speech. 
• Wernike's Aphasia: unable to understand language: the syntax and grammar jumbled.