Perception of body awareness (e.g. stops you bumping into stuff), Spatial coordinate system
Frontal lobe
Problem solving, Controlling behaviour
Occipital lobe
Receives/processes visual information
Temporal lobe
Recognises/processes speech and sound, helps perceive shapes and colours
Cerebellum
Coordinating movement and balance
Contralateral function
Left side controls right side of body
Left hemisphere
Responsible for processing language (Broca's area)
Right hemisphere
Responsible for spatial awareness, facial recognition
Parts of the brain used for producing/processing language are slightly bigger in females
Males were slightly better at spatial tasks, especially those that use a lot of activity in the right hemisphere
Stereotypes influence our behaviour, girls are told to gossip better language skills
Criminals had lower levels of activity in the pre-frontal cortex and abnormal functioning amygdala (linked to pre-frontal cortex), so felt fear differently
Visual agnosia
Can see but cannot receive/interpret visual information, caused by an impairment to the parietal lobe
Prosopagnosia
Cannot identify/recognise faces, caused by damage to the right hemisphere
