The cerebral cortex maybe be broken up into four lobes. Each lobe is named after the bones of the skull that cover them. In the very front is the frontal lobe, and behind that is the parietal lobe. At the very back of the brain we find the occipital lobe. And curving around each side of the brain we find the temporal lobe. Because the brain is made of two hemispheres there are pairs of each lobe.
Frontal lobe:
The most forward of the four lobes of the cerebral cortex is the frontal lobe. It is the location of the primary motor cortex. This area is also responsible for some of the most complex cognitive processes. It is involved with planning of behavior, attention, and judgment. This is the part of the brain that makes us the stronger species. It gives us the ability to reason and understand beyond that of most livings things. It allows us to understand what we are feeling after the information is sent to frontal lobe from the parietal lobe.
Parietal lobe:
The lobe of the cerebral cortex that is on top of our head between the frontal lobe and occipital lobes is the parietal lobe. This is the primary somatosensory cortex. It is the part of the brain that communicates with the nervous system that brings sensory information to the central nervous system and transmits commands to the muscles. Basically it’s the part of the nervous system that transmits information for voluntary movement between the central nervous system and the muscles. It helps us localize touch, pain, skin temperature, and body position. It also processes input about taste and can engage in some complex processing of vision. It works with the occipital lobe to tell us how quickly something is moving towards us.
Occipital lobe:
This is the lobe located in the back of the brain which supports the primary visual cortex. This means that it begins the process of interpreting what we see with our eyes by responding to basic information of an image