Part of the brain responsible for sensory input and some language processing
Parietal lobe
Frontal lobe
Temporal lobe
Parietal lobe
Occipital lobe
Principal fissures and lobes of the cerebrum viewed laterally. (Parietal lobe is shown in yellow)
Lateral surface of left cerebral hemisphere, viewed from the side. (Parietal lobe is shown in orange.)
Details
Pronunciation
/pəˈraɪ.ɪtəl/pə-RY-it-əl[1]
Part of
Cerebrum
Artery
Anterior cerebral Middle cerebral
Vein
Superior sagittal sinus
Identifiers
Latin
lobus parietalis
MeSH
D010296
NeuroNames
95
NeuroLex ID
birnlex_1148
TA98
A14.1.09.123
TA2
5467
FMA
61826
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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The parietal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals. The parietal lobe is positioned above the temporal lobe and behind the frontal lobe and central sulcus.
The parietal lobe integrates sensory information among various modalities, including spatial sense and navigation (proprioception), the main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch in the somatosensory cortex which is just posterior to the central sulcus in the postcentral gyrus,[2] and the dorsal stream of the visual system. The major sensory inputs from the skin (touch, temperature, and pain receptors), relay through the thalamus to the parietal lobe.
Several areas of the parietal lobe are important in language processing. The somatosensory cortex can be illustrated as a distorted figure – the cortical homunculus[3] (Latin: "little man") in which the body parts are rendered according to how much of the somatosensory cortex is devoted to them.[4] The superior parietal lobule and inferior parietal lobule are the primary areas of body or spatial awareness. A lesion commonly in the right superior or inferior parietal lobule leads to hemineglect.
The name comes from the parietal bone, which is named from the Latin paries-, meaning "wall".
^"PARIETAL | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary".
^"Parietal Lobe".
^The cortical homunculus should not be confused with the more general homunculus concept for a "spectator within the brain"; see work by psychologist David Marr for more information on this.
^Schacter DL, Gilbert DL, Wegner DM (2009). Psychology (2nd ed.). New York (NY): Worth Publishers.
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