Temporal Lobe

Functions

• Memory
• Language
• Emotion
• Learning
• Perception(senses)

Case Study

• Deep stimulation can lead to:
• Out of body experience

• Religious experience

The temporal lobe helps the body with comprehension, memory language etc. Damaging this part of the brain will give the inability to recognize certain things(music, smells, body parts, faces, colors).

Disorders/Damages

• Schizophrenia
• Possible impairment in Alzheimer's
• Speech/Social dysfunction in autism
• Aggression
• Memory loss(long/short)
• Persistent talking
• Inability to sensory input
• Troubles with understanding objects(agnosia), speech(Wernicke's aphasia), and faces(prosopagnosia)
• Increase/decrease in sexual behavior

Substructures

• Fusiform gyrus
• Wernicke's area
• Amygdala
• Primary auditory cortex
• Middle temporal gyrus
• Inferior temporal gyrus
• Superior temporal gyrus