The Importance Of The Frontal Lobe

Do you ever just wonder how you do the things you do? Well, it all comes down to your brain. The brain is the organ inside your skull. Your brain tells you what to do, and how to do it. You may wonder what parts of your brain control what you do, like the Frontal Lobe. You may also want to know what the Parietal and Occipital Lobes do. After you start to understand what all three of those lobes do you may want to know what the Temporal Lobe does. It is better to understand something than to just forget about it.

Do you understand how the brain works? Or what the different parts of the brain are. Well the human brain is split into several section. The Frontal Lobe is the lobe located toward the front of your head. Imagine that, why else would it be called the Frontal Lobe. If you were to tap on your forehead right now, you would be tapping exactly where this lobe is at. If you didn’t have a skull you would not feel any pain on your brain, because the brain has no pain receptors (Striedter, 555). That’s pretty cool, right?

Anyway the Frontal Lobe has several different functions. From planning to problem solving, the Frontal Lobe has it all. Planning is this lobe’s main function. It helps us to plan what we are going to do today and the next day. Without this lobe we would not be very organized. We wouldn’t be able to put things in order. Our sequences wouldn’t be sequences at all, it would be more of a jumbo pile of who knows what. Other than planning and organizing, the Frontal Lobe several more jobs.

Say something. When you said something, you just used your Frontal Lobe, again. You use this lobe a lot more than you think you do. This lobe houses the Broca area. “The Broca area is the area that contains motor neurons that are ...

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... of the things having to do with speech, but not all. Mostly just comprehension and verbal memory. Speaking of memory…the temporal lobe has to do with your long term memory. It has parts so you can recall your memories and describe them. It also gets them from the rest of your brain so you can replay them in your mind. Without the Temporal Lobe you wouldn’t be able to recall almost all of your childhood memories. I don’t know what I would do without my memories.

Just think, without our Temporal Lobes we would probably not be able to read. We wouldn’t be able to comprehend anything. When reading something out loud you wouldn’t know what sounds go with which letter(s). You wouldn’t have any retention. Retention is remembering what you have read and being able to recall it. Without retention you wouldn’t learn anything from all the book that teachers make you read.