Use That Grey Matter Between The Ears!
“The brain is a muscle that can move the world.” -Stephen King
We are going to discuss the most important component and main control center of our bodies, thee brain! There are four lobes which make up the brain: the frontal lobe (anterior aspect) the parietal lobe (mid superior aspect), the occipital lobe (posterior aspect) and the temporal lobe (lateral aspect). Each of these lobes partake in a different role on processing information and perceiving the world around us. The frontal lobe is responsible for initiating thoughts, decisions on actions, initiating actions, reasoning, and personality. The frontal lobe is pretty much who YOU are. The brain does not develop until the age of 25 and it develops beginning from the posterior aspect and making its way to the frontal lobes which are the last to develop and structure connections.
The parietal lobe gathers information from the frontal lobe, cerebellum, and brainstem. It helps process your sense of touch whether it be temperature, pressure, vibration, or pain. The parietal lobe also helps you understand your relation to other things around you such as self-perception or proprioception. For example, if you raise your hand above your head, you know where your hand is at in space, you don’t have to look up and see your hand above your head to know it is there. The parietal lobe helps with learned movements that improve with time such as writing which is why you become better at writing the more you do it. Location awareness is another contributor of the parietal lobe meaning if you see a stove and a fridge, you can conclude that you are in the kitchen.
The temporal lobe is responsible for memory processes as well as language by understanding the meaning of objects, words and forming sentences. If you saw a shovel, you would know it was for digging. This lobe also processes sight and sound.
The last lobe is the occipital lobe. This lobe mainly contributes different forms of vision such as spatial processing with shapes textures, color processing to distinguish different colors, distance and depth perception to differentiate how near or far an object is. The occipital lobe is further responsible for facial recognition as well.
There’s been a myth about using only 10% of our brain at any given time and that myth has been debunked. We use all of our brain all the time even when we’re sleeping. Our brains are constantly staying active.
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