The frontal lobe is the front section of the brain, sitting roughly behind your forehead. It does two very different jobs at once. It moves your body on purpose, and it helps you plan, judge situations, and hold back impulses you’d regret acting on. Everyone has two frontal lobes, one behind each side of the…
Learn how sensory receptors convert touch, light, sound, and chemicals into neural signals that the brain organizes into perception and action.
The cerebral cortex is the thin, folded layer of tissue covering the two cerebral hemispheres, the large outer part of the brain. It helps you interpret what you sense, guide voluntary movement, use language, form memories, direct attention, and make decisions. Its surface is folded into ridges called gyri and grooves called sulci. Most of…
