There’s much to learn regarding the parietal lobes, such as their function and location. The parietal lobes are responsible for sensory information, visual processing, and coordinating movement, and ...

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, ...

Kennedy's doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday that the preliminary results from the brain biopsy showed a tumor in the left parietal lobe was responsible for the seizure.

A fundamental goal in neuroscience is to understand how perception arises from the activity of neurons in the brain 1. This has been explored most extensively for visual motion perception in monkeys.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, combined type (ADHD-CT) is associated with spatial working memory deficits. These deficits are known to be subserved by dysfunction of neural circuits ...

A series of clever experiments into the reptilian "third eye" has confirmed that lizards use this patch of light-sensitive cells as a sun-calibrated compass. To test how third eyes — technically known ...

PAUL S. COWAN '62, former Executive Editor of the CRIMSON is doing graduate work at the University of Chicago. I have been following the recent controversy over parietal hours with much interest, ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream..." Maybe John Lennon was onto something when he wrote those words for the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows." It turns out that that reality and ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) The vertebrate eye is a remarkable evolutionary invention, displaying an incredible repertoire, from a soaring falcon's ...

Dean Monro and Watson last week expressed deep distress over what they consider to be "a loose moral situation" at Harvard. Dean Monro said present parietal rules and enforcement policies "are ...

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 ...