The nurse educator is reviewing the four cerebral lobes with the nursing students. The nurse educator asks a student nurse to identify the primary functions of each of the brain's four cerebral lobes
Which answer provide by a student nurse is the best answer? A) Frontal lobe is responsible for speech and some sensory input.
B) Parietal lobe is responsible for lower mental processes.
C) Temporal lobe is responsible for smell, hearing, and some memory.
D) Occipital lobe is responsible for higher mental processes.
C
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The four cerebral lobes—frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital—are located in both hemispheres of the brain. The frontal lobe is responsible for higher mental processes. The parietal lobe is responsible for speech and some sensory input. The temporal lobe is responsible for smell, hearing, and some memory. The occipital lobe is responsible for vision.
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