<P> The frontal lobe contains most of the dopamine - delicate neurons in the cerebral cortex . The dopamine system is associated with reward, attention, short - term memory tasks, planning, and motivation . Dopamine tends to limit and select sensory information arriving from the thalamus to the forebrain . A report from the National Institute of Mental Health says a gene variant that reduces dopamine activity in the prefrontal cortex is related to poorer performance and inefficient functioning of that brain region during working memory tasks, and to a slightly increased risk for schizophrenia . </P> <P> The parietal lobe is positioned above the occipital lobe and behind the frontal lobe and central sulcus . </P> <P> The parietal lobe integrates sensory information among various modalities, including spatial sense and navigation (proprioception), the main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch (mechanoreception) in the somatosensory cortex which is just posterior to the central sulcus in the postcentral gyrus, and the dorsal stream of the visual system . The major sensory inputs from the skin (touch, temperature, and pain receptors), relay through the thalamus to the parietal lobe . </P> <P> Several areas of the parietal lobe are important in language processing . The somatosensory cortex can be illustrated as a distorted figure--the homunculus (Latin: "little man"), in which the body parts are rendered according to how much of the somatosensory cortex is devoted to them . The superior parietal lobule and inferior parietal lobule are the primary areas of body or spatial awareness . A lesion commonly in the right superior or inferior parietal lobule leads to hemineglect . </P>

Spatial location and motor control are the responsibility of the blank lobes of the brain