Frontal Lobe Functions

Planning

Problem solving

Inhibition

Prevent us from just responding to the environment, rather than executing plans.

Regulate social behavior (related to inhibition)

Short term or working memory

Executes motor behavior

Social mirroring

Occipital Lobe Functions

Process visual stimuli

Process color

Process motion

Process form

Imagery

Temporal Lobe Functions

Process verbal meaning

Speech production

Comprehending speech

Process emotion in speech

Process auditory pitch

Memory for faces

Object recognition

General memory ability

Emotion and personality

Some visual processing

Long term memory (i.e., events that occurred more than a few minutes ago)

Parietal Lobe Functions

Attention

Combines information from numerous senses

Process skin pressure

Process touch

Process skin temperature

Process pain