The parietal lobe is one of the brain’s major lobes. It sits near the upper back area in the skull. The lobe processes sensory information received from the outside world, mainly relating to touch, ...

The contribution of the parietal cortex to episodic memory is a fascinating scientific puzzle: although parietal lesions do not normally yield severe episodic-memory deficits, parietal activations are ...

Scientists have, for the first time, induced difficulties with mathematics (dyscalculia) in subjects who normally find math easy. The study, which finds that the right parietal lobe is responsible for ...

Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. A new study shows a connection ...

The parietal lobe is located near the center of the brain, behind the frontal lobe, in front of the occipital lobe, and above the temporal lobe. The parietal lobe contains an area known as the primary ...