Parietal Lobe Details - VAST
Responsible for:
- Visual, tactile, & auditory input
- Left side
- Verbal processing
- Right lobe
- Visual-spatial processing
Function:
- Body sensations
Damage Effect:
- Impairment of attention, conc, language, number sense, grammar
- Visual-spatial relations; ability to learn from past experiences
Psychopathology:
- Aphasia, agnosia, apraxia
- Out of body experiences
An easy way to remember the functions of the parietal lobe:
- V: visual spatial processing
- A: association cortex (visual, auditory, taste, smell, kenetics)
- S: symbolic recognition
- T: topographic sense
