the.com/parietal lobe
The brain's GPS and math teacher, fused into one hat-shaped region.
means The region of the brain, located near the top and back of the skull, that processes sensory information like touch and spatial awareness, and handles numbers and navigation.
from From Latin 'parietalis,' relating to 'paries' meaning wall — the word originally described the bones forming the walls of the skull. The parietal bones sit like side-paneling over this part of the brain, and the lobe simply borrowed the architecture's name.
- location
- sits between frontal and occipital lobes, under the crown
- handles
- spatial awareness, touch, and number sense
- damage effect
- can cause neglect of one entire side of space
- math link
- activates heavily during arithmetic and finger counting