The parietal lobe is one of the brain’s major lobes. It sits near the upper back area in the skull. The lobe processes sensory information received from the outside world, mainly relating to touch, ...

The contribution of the parietal cortex to episodic memory is a fascinating scientific puzzle: although parietal lesions do not normally yield severe episodic-memory deficits, parietal activations are ...

The ability to filter out distracting sensory information is crucial to adaptive behavior. A primate study finds that prefrontal cortex is more important than parietal cortex in that function. You ...

There’s much to learn regarding the parietal lobes, such as their function and location. The parietal lobes are responsible for sensory information, visual processing, and coordinating movement, and ...

The parietal lobe is located near the center of the brain, behind the frontal lobe, in front of the occipital lobe, and above the temporal lobe. The parietal lobe contains an area known as the primary ...

Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. A new study shows a connection ...

Scientists have, for the first time, induced difficulties with mathematics (dyscalculia) in subjects who normally find math easy. The study, which finds that the right parietal lobe is responsible for ...

It happens as often as 16% of our conscious lives: the mind simply goes blank. There is nothing inside, no verbal thinking, ...

"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream..." Maybe John Lennon was onto something when he wrote those words for the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows." It turns out that that reality and ...

Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was salvaged, sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping. Since then, researchers have weighed, measured and otherwise ...