- Left side of the brain controls the right side of the body
- Right side of the brain controls the left side of the body
- more concerned with the artistic, spatial and musical.
- more concerned with colder, linear, rational and verbal aspects
- The Temporal Lobe
- involved in emotion, memory and speech
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The Frontal Lobe
- responsible for functions such as reasoning, problem solving, judgement, impulse control. It also manages our higher emotions such as empathy and altruism. This lobe is involved in motor control and memory.
- Broca's Area
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The Parietal Lobe
- associated with cognition (including calculating location and speed of objects), movement, orientation, recognition and speech.
- This part of the cortex controls speech, language recognition and facial nerves.
- The Neocortex
- This is where we find the brain power to develop language, abstract thought, conciousness and imagination and it is divided into two hemispheres