Parietal Lobes Flashcards

Subdivisions of the parietal lobes

Inferior parietal lobule

Anterior zones

Posterior zones

Object recognition

Guidance of movement

Cognitive spatial map

Symptoms that do not fit with the visuomotor view of the parietal lobe

Acalculia

Language

Movement sequencing

Lesions to the postcentral gyrus

Astereognosis

Simultaneous extinction

Contralateral neglect

Recovering from contralateral neglect

Allesthesia

Lesions and contralateral neglect

Object recognition and lobe damage

Apraxia

Ideomotor apraxia

Constructional apraxia

Deficits in drawing

Spatial attention

Disengagement

Mental rotation

Spatial cognition and left hemisphere deficit

Spatial cognition and right hemisphere deficit