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parietal lobe
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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
- Parietal lobe epilepsy.Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society · 2012
- The parietal lobe and language.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2018
- The parietal lobe evolution and the emergence of material culture in the human genus.Brain structure & function · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “parietal lobe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.