Temporal Lobe

Temporal lobe is situated below the frontal and parietal lobes. It contains the
hippocampus and plays a key role in the formation of explicit long-term memory
modulated by the amygdala. This means that it is involved in attaching emotions to all the
data received from all senses. Adjacent areas in the superior, posterior, and lateral part of
the temporal lobes are involved in high-level auditory processing. The temporal lobe is
involved in primary auditory perception, such as hearing, and holds the primary auditory
cortex. The primary auditory cortex receives sensory information from the ears and
secondary areas process the information into meaningful units such as speech and words.
The ventral part of the temporal cortices appears to be involved in high-level visual processing of complex stimuli such as faces and scenes. Anterior parts of this ventral
stream for visual processing are involved in object perception and recognition.