| Frontal Lobe | Deals with the most integrated brain functions: thinking, conceptualizing and planning. It also plays a major part in the conscious appreciation of emotion. |
| Parietal Lobe | Functions connected with movement, orientation, calculation and certain types of recognition. |
| Temporal Lobe | Deals with sound, speech comprehension (usually the left brain only) and some aspects of memory. |
| Occipital Lobe | Made up entirely of visual processing areas. |
| Motor Cortex |
The frontal motor cortex primarily controls the movement of the hands and face.
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| Corpus Callosum |
A thick band of axon fibers, 80 million or so, which connect the brain cells in left hemisphere to those in the right hemisphere. The two sides keep up a continuous intimate conversation via this neural bridge that produces a seamless perception of the world, and a single stream of consciousness. There is a difference in size between men and women -- women's are relatively larger.
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