Really, consciousness is seated in the frontal lobe.

And he studied Alzheimer's patients that had frontal temporal lobe dementia.

And you can see here, he's starting to get more energy into the frontal lobe.

The gene heightens normally occurring connections between the taste area in his frontal lobe and the color area further back.

And one of the main reasons our brain got so big is because it got a new part, called the frontal lobe.

The bell curve shows 150 controls, and what is being looked at is the difference between the right and the left frontal lobe.

That's the small lobe, and then that's the big lobe like that.

In red is an area that's active in the prefrontal cortex, the frontal lobe of the brain, and in blue is this area that was deactivated.

Those are the frontal lobes.

Three dimensional play fires up the cerebellum, puts a lot of impulses into the frontal lobe the executive portion helps contextual memory be developed, and and, and, and.

The other one is the frontal lobe, which controls how we sustain attention, and another one is the anterior cingulate, which controls how we allocate and regulate attention and resolve conflict.

Then you have another one that has a big lobe like that and a small lobe in the back.

And then you have one where the big lobe is pointing straight up, and it has a small lobe going down.

Particularly, a part called the pre frontal cortex.

The big thing about humans, is their frontal lobes.

Let's say this is the big lobe that is kind of pointing near us, and then it has a small lobe in the back.

Just very simply, the three parts of the brain the frontal lobe, where you focus your attention and concentration you have the temporal lobe, where you form images and keep memories and the posterior part of your brain, which contains the cerebellum, which controls motion and the brain stem, where you have your basic maintenance functions,

We think, at least in this preliminary it's one study it's probably wrong, but it's one study (Laughter) we think that at least a reasonable hypothesis is that, to be creative, you should have this weird dissociation in your frontal lobe.

One of these regions is called the left inferior frontal gyrus.

We've got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world.

We got the temporal lobe so we can actually hear the world.

Here, they're parallel. p orbitals are parallel to each other, and you see that they overlap on this kind of top lobe here and in this bottom lobe here.

Average likelihood is 30 percent, the left inferior frontal gyrus would respond fiercely.

And in particular, one area of the temporal lobe is called the fusiform gyrus.

And the temporal lobe hallucinations are all sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity,

We know that if you stimulate the temporal lobe, you can produce a feeling of out of body experiences, near death experiences, which you can do by just touching an electrode to the temporal lobe there.

Children below the age of 8 have an underdeveloped frontal lobe that might cause them to be unable to separate reality from fantasy. Some of them might believe that there are monsters in their closet or under the bed for example. They are also sometimes unable to distinguish dreams from reality.

When images are formed, a higher part of the visual cortex is involved in the temporal lobe.

It's been shown to promote pre frontal cortex development where a lot of cognition is happening.

On the other side of the brain, the right inferior frontal gyrus was responding to bad news.

And you see that in humans, because of the development of the pre frontal cortex, it's called.

You can kind of imagine a three legged stool, and then its small lobe will come out like that.

Now, you go to this one and you see how much more the frontal lobes are lighting up.

Let's say this is an sp3 hybridized orbital, and that's on this atom and this is kind of this big lobe right there.

If you look at the first slide there, that's the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, OK the lobes that constitute the brain.

They say it's very good for the brain, you are using the frontal lobes of the brain to do this kind of switching.

It goes to the nucleus accumbens, all the way up to the prefrontal cortex, orbital frontal cortex, where decisions are made, high level.

You have the middle area, where the temporal lobe might be, in here, and the posterior portion, where the maintenance functions are in the back.

It turns out the pre frontal cortex does lots of things, but one of the most important things it does is an experience simulator.

And what he's doing is he's passing a small magnetic pulse through the skull of the participant in our study into their inferior frontal gyrus.

The balconies come down, you see that the orchestra begins to have a rake that's frontal towards the end stage, and the seats come in.

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

Well, we know exactly where it happens, in the temporal lobe, right across, sort of above your ear there, in a little structure called the fusiform gyrus.

You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group.

What does a pre frontal cortex do for you that should justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull in the blink of evolutionary time?