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parietal lobe
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parietal lobe [pə′rī·əd·əl ‚lōb]
(anatomy)
The cerebral lobe of the brain above the lateral cerebral sulcus and behind the central sulcus.


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On the other hand, this newer region associated with rationality is more densely interconnected to other cortices, the posterior parietal and temporal lobes, for example, and to other cell groups that are disproportionately large in humans, and it might very well complete a circuit that allows us to be more flexible by inhibiting automatic responses.
Whereas high g-loaded tasks increased activity in bilateral prefrontal regions as expected, for the gifted subjects the activations were seen in the anterior cingulate, a region involved in emotionally weighted decision making (Rolls, 1999), and the posterior parietal cortices, regions involved in forming conceptual interrelationships, especially of a quasi-spatial representation (Fuster, 2003; Luria, 1973), where the BOLD response correlated positively with RAPM measures of g.
On CT, curvilinear calcifications in a gyral pattern are often seen, primarily in the occipital and posterior parietal lobes ipsilateral to the facial angioma.
 
 
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