- Frontal Lobe
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- T247689
- Frontal Lobe (English, Latin script, Original)
The frontal lobe is critical in planning responses to stimuli (729). One of the four lobes of the brain; includes all of the cortex that lies anterior to the central sulcus and superior to the lateral fissure.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Among all regions of the brain, the frontal lobes have undergone the largest expansion in humans compared with other non-human primates (excluding the great apes). They occupy 41% of the human brain and are considered by many to be the seat of the higher faculties that have allowed humans to dominate their environment.1 To many, frontal lobe function is synonymous with executive function, a term that is meant to encompass the capacity of the frontal lobes to control other cognitive processes and make them more efficient through attention, inhibition of basic responses in pursuit of a more complex goal, abstraction, and other mechanisms. Not all executive functions are primarily frontally mediated, however.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Largest of the cerebral lobes, extends from the central sulcus to the frontal pole of the brain. It extends inferiorly to the lateral sulcus. The frontal cortex also extends onto the medial surface of the brain, where it borders the corpus callosum inferiorly
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Neuroanatomically, the frontal lobe is the largest lobe of the brain lying in front of the central sulcus. It is divided into 3 major areas defined by their anatomy and function. They are the primary motor cortex, the supplemental and premotor cortex, and the prefrontal cortex.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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The frontal lobes comprise roughly a third of the human cerebral cortex. Through evolution this brain region has increased disproportionately, and as a result of this expansion it has been viewed as the basis for human intellect and thought. Studies of individuals with brain injury have suggested that frontal lobe damage affects many aspects of cognition, including attention, memory, language, problem solving, emotion, and decision making.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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The frontal lobes serve as the “Senior Executive” of the brain and personality, acting to process, integrate, inhibit, assimilate and remember perceptions and impulses received from the limbic system, striatum, temporal lobes, and neocortical sensory receiving areas.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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