The parietal region at the back of the skull forms a sagittal crest.
The mental rotation task alone also activated 37 voxels, mostly in parietal regions.
The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement.
Both patients had undergone damage to posterior parietal regions, one of which involved predominately the left side of the parieto-occipital areas.
The frontal and parietal regions are also evident in the right hemisphere.
Neuroscience divides the operculum into frontal, parietal and temporal regions, after the lobes of which they form a part.
"This just involves the tip of the occipital pole, not the parietal or temporal region."
At the top of the skull, between the two temporal openings, the parietal region is wide.
For example, frontal regions of the brain tend to be thicker than expected, while posterior and parietal regions are thinner.
The parietal region, however, appears to be unaffected.