parietal lobe

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. the middle part of each cerebral hemisphere behind the central sulcus.

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parietal lobe British  

noun

1. the portion of each cerebral hemisphere concerned with the perception and interpretation of sensations of touch, temperature, and taste and with muscular movements

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parietal lobe Scientific  

/ pə-rī′ĭ-təl /

1. The upper middle lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, located above the temporal lobe. Complex sensory information from the body is processed in the parietal lobe, which also controls the ability to understand language.

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Etymology

Origin of parietal lobe

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Researchers also found activity as expected in regions of the brain that encode visual and auditory inputs, as well as the parietal lobe, which is known to be involved in numerical and calculation-related functions.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

MRI scans revealed that most of the brain activity was concentrated in the angular gyrus, a portion of the parietal lobe of the brain.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2024

He’d extracted a lime-size mass from my right parietal lobe — glioblastoma, a malignant, incurable grade 4 brain cancer, known as G.B.M.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

The dorsal visual stream interacts with the somatosensory cortex in the parietal lobe, and together they can influence the activity in the frontal lobe to generate movements of the body in relation to visual information.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It runs forward in the parietal lobe above and in the temporal lobe below.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various