Cerebral Cortex Research Paper

Four Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex
The Cerebral Cortex is what separates humans from the rest of the world’s species. Our Cerebral Cortex is larger in size, as well as a much greater amount of convolutions than other species. The Cerebral Cortex is divided up in too four major parts, Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe, and the Temporal Lobe. Frontal Lobe located in front directly behind the forehead, it synchronizes motor skills, analytical skills, cognitive skill emotional expression, recall, and judgement. It’s the command center for our individuality and our capability to communicate abstract reflection. The left frontal lobe controls language related movement, the right frontal lobe plays a part in non-verbal activity. According
to Medscape, when checking someone for possible Frontal Lobe injury you need to interview someone that has personal knowledge the patient. If the doctor receives a statement like the patient used to be well organized and now can’t finish anything, might be a red flag to probe deeper looking for behavioral changes. Asking questions like do they say things that they would normally never say like, you need to go on a diet, or I hope you didn’t pay for that haircut. Or social skills at the dinner table, do they eat before other even have food, or graze on other plates without asking? Do they show compassion or recognize others emotions. Do they have an uncaring attitude toward everything, like they don’t care if bills get paid? Any major change in sexuality?
Parietal Lobe is situated in front of the optical lobe, it affects touch response, along with the overseeing of the body’s ability to stay balanced in space.
It interprets shapes, objects and sentence structure, processes language and mathematic procedure. If the Right Parietal Lobe is damaged a person might get lost in their own home or new places. If the Left Parietal Lobe is damaged they might not be able to understand verbal or written language. They also might drop things.
Occipital Lobe is located in the back of the Cerebral hemisphere. They are the visual regions of the brain that help us make out shapes, odors, and motion around us. Damage to this area can cause visual issues like burst of light, star burst or even blindness.
Temporal Lobes, are locate between the ear and temple on both left and right sides of the brain. They help us differentiate between one odor and another, and one noise and another. They play a role in our short term memory and behavior. The left oversees visual memory and the right oversees verbal memory. Damage to this area can cause hearing issues, outburst, easily upset, oversensitive, to even childlike behavior. Can also cause our speech to come out like jumbled words just randomly thrown together in no order.
As you can tell these four areas of the brain make up a vast array of our body functions and show us why they are the four major parts of the Cerebral
Cortex.