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

Some signals go to the temporal lobe, which detects “where” information, and other signals go to the parietal lobe, which detects “where” and “what” signals.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Just behind this direct sensory center for the body, in the parietal lobe, are portions of the cortex concerned in perceiving facts by aid of the body senses.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.