parietal lobe
part of the brain responsible for sensory input and some language processing
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- / p ə ˈ r aɪ . ɪ t əl / pə- RY -it-əl
- Part of
- Cerebrum
- Artery
- Anterior cerebral , Middle cerebral
- Vein
- Superior sagittal sinus
- Latin
- lobus parietalis
- Mesh
- D010296
- Neurolex id
- birnlex_1148
- Ta98
- A14.1.09.123
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
43,367 papers- Parietal lobe epilepsy.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2018
- Parietal lobe epilepsy.Advances in neurology · 2000
~9 min read
Article
The parietal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in brains. 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, 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.