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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Activity among the anxiety group normalized in 13 regions of the fronto-parietal network regions after 12 weeks ...

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 ...

The ability to filter out distracting sensory information is crucial to adaptive behavior. A primate study finds that prefrontal cortex is more important than parietal cortex in that function. You ...

New research shows that the frequency of alpha waves in the parietal cortex impacts how we perceive body ownership. Faster wave frequencies enhance the precision of body ownership sensations, while ...

Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...