Name the four lobes of the cerebral cortex. What functions do they perform?
Cerebral cortex has four lobes. These are (i) Frontal lobe, (ii) Parietal lobe, (iii) Temporal lobe, (iv) Occipital lobe.
(i) Frontal lobe: It is mainly concerned with cognitive functions, such as attention, thinking, memory, learning, and reasoning. It also exserts inhibitory effects on autonomous and emotional responses.
(ii) Parietal lobe: It is mainly concerned with cutaneous sensations and their co-ordination with visual and auditory sensations.
(iii) Temporal lobe: This is primarily concerned with the processing of auditory information. This is the site of memory for symbolic sounds and words. Understanding of speech and written language depends on this lobe.
(iv) Occipital lobe: It is mainly concerned with visual information. Interpretation of visual impulses, memory for visual stimuli and colour visual orientation is performed by this lobe.
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