Question

Which task would not be affected by damage to the right parietal lobe?

• A. Recognising shapes
• B. Dressing
• C. Doing arithmetic
• D. Writing

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Writing

The parietal lobe, located behind the frontal lobe, is responsible for integrating sensory and visual information and is critical to how we perceive our world. Damage to right parietal lobe can cause problems recognising the left side of our body, planning basic tasks such as how to dress ourselves, read maps, draw shapes, recognise objects or do arithmetic. Damage to the left parietal lobe causes problems such as telling left from right, an inability to write or count and speech disorders.