Brain Lobes Quiz
The four lobes — frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital — are the first map of the cortex, and this quiz tests them the way exams do: a region is highlighted on a 3D brain and you place it, or name the structures that live inside each lobe.
Lobe boundaries are landmarks, not lines on a diagram: the central sulcus separates frontal from parietal, the lateral fissure sets off the temporal lobe. Seeing them in 3D is what makes the boundaries stick.
What each lobe does
Frontal: planning, movement, speech production and personality — it holds the motor cortex and Broca's area. Parietal: touch, spatial attention and number sense, behind the central sulcus. Temporal: hearing, language comprehension and memory, with the hippocampus tucked inside. Occipital: vision, nearly all of it.
The quiz asks both directions — from a highlighted lobe to its name, and from a named function to the lobe that owns it.
From lobes to the regions inside them
Knowing the lobe is the first pass; exams then ask what is inside it. After a lobes round, the same quiz can drill the regions each lobe contains — precentral gyrus in the frontal, postcentral in the parietal, Wernicke's area at the temporo-parietal junction, V1 in the occipital.
Common questions
What are the four lobes of the brain and their functions?
Frontal (movement, planning, speech production), parietal (touch and spatial processing), temporal (hearing, comprehension, memory) and occipital (vision). Each hemisphere has all four.
What separates the frontal and parietal lobes?
The central sulcus. The precentral gyrus (motor cortex) lies immediately in front of it, the postcentral gyrus (somatosensory cortex) immediately behind it.
Is the insula a fifth lobe?
Many anatomists treat it as one. The insula is a fold of cortex buried inside the lateral fissure, hidden from the surface view — some counts also add the limbic lobe, giving six.