Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe.
People with frontal lobe damage caused by accidents often find difficulty concentrating and are more easily distracted, research shows.
The frontal lobe of the brain is concerned with reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement, emotions, and problem-solving.
For example, the frontal lobe, which is linked to decision making and problem solving, is proportionally larger in women than in men.
FORBES: What Men Can Learn from Women to Invest More Profitably
Our results suggest that a neural network of frontal lobe areas acts as a central bottleneck of information processing that severely limits our ability to multitask.
Damage or abnormalities in the frontal lobe -- a brain area that regulates movement, inhibition, emotions and general behaviors -- has been linked to violent behavior.
Because we have a large frontal lobe, we can close our eyes, simulate our actions and watch their consequences unfold on the little theater screens in our minds.
The frontal lobe areas are associated with reasoning, planning, generating language, movement, and problem solving, which means that the mediums were experiencing reduced focus, lessened self-awareness and fuzzy consciousness during psychography.
FORBES: When You Inject Spirit Mediums' Brains with Radioactive Chemicals, Strange Things Happen
There is strong evidence that IQ has increased dramatically as more children spend more time in school, and there is even some evidence that higher IQ is correlated with delayed frontal lobe development.
In particular, he has a patient called Elliot (in neuroscience, patients are often referred to by single names or initials to preserve their privacy) whose frontal lobe was damaged by a brain tumour.
Portable frontal lobe zappers are still (thankfully) infeasible.
WSJ: Mind & Matter: Alison Gopnik on Beating the Brain's Curbs on Innovation
The results suggest that these emotions are handled in the medial prefrontal cortex (the middle of the front of the frontal lobe), the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (one of the furrows towards the side of the brain) and the visual cortex (towards the back of the brain).
In one case, a man who had been a linebacker for sixteen years, you could see, without the aid of magnification, that there was trouble: there was a shiny tan layer of scar tissue, right on the surface of the frontal lobe, where the brain had repeatedly slammed into the skull.
It affects the frontal temporal lobe and progresses in various stages depending on form of damage the person has.
FORBES: In Courtroom Twist, Real Estate Mogul Pleads Mental Illness
应用推荐