frontal lobe

• frontal lobe

  • integrates information received from other brain areas
  • provides meaning, determines appropriate response
  • largest of all four lobes
• frontal lobe areas

  • prefrontal cortex
  • primary motor cortex
  • Brocas area
• prefrontal cortex regulates

  • cognitive functions
  • executive functions
• prefrontal cortex contributes to

  • personality
  • intelligence
  • social skills
• executive functions - higher order cognitive functions

  • emotional control
  • working memory
  • attentional focus
• prefrontal cortex

  • predicts possible consequences for our actions
  • controls socially unacceptable responses
• works with other brain structures

  • amygdala
  • hippocampus
• primary motor cortex controls

  • voluntary bodily movements
• primary motor cortex - voluntary bodily movements

  • left primary motor cortex controls movement on right side
  • right primary motor cortex controls movement on the left side
• brocas area located

  • left frontal lobe
• brocas aphasia regulates

  • movement of mouth muscles
• brocas area damage

  • result in brocas aphasia
• brocas aphasia

  • speech impairment disorder
  • comprehension not affected
• damage to frontal lobe

  • difficulty with decision making
  • memory loss
  • brocas aphasia
  • personality changes