The parietal lobe sits above the temporal lobe and under the parietal bone which forms the top of the skull. This portion of the brain is less understood than the other lobes. Research has shown that this lobe is important for visuospatial processing and for assimilating sensory information from other parts of the body. Further, the primary sensory cortex sits on the front end of the parietal lobe.
An injury to this part of the brain can lead to reading and object-recognition problems, inability to focus visual attention or to attend to more than one object at a time, trouble with math, loss of awareness of one’s own body parts, and even an inability to tell left from right.
