Inferior+Parietal+Lobe

in part an outgrowth of the superior temporal lobe but also consists of somesthetic and visual neocortical tissue.

The angular and supramarginal gyrus also act to impose temporal sequences on incoming auditory, as well as visual and somesthetic stimuli, and also serves to provide (via its extensive interconnections with surrounding brain tissue) and integrate related associations thus making complex and grammatically correct human language possible.

a structure which also becomes highly active when reading and naming and acts as a phonological storehouse that becomes activated during short-term memory and word retrieval

Developmentally, of all cortical regions, the inferior parietal lobule is one of the last to functionally and anatomically mature. Hence, many capacities mediated by this area (e.g. reading, calculation, the performance of reversible operations in space) are late to develop appearing between the ages of 5-8.

Sitting at the junction of the temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes, the inferior region (which includes the angular and supramarginal gyri) has no strict anatomical boundaries, is partly coextensive with the posterior-superior temporal gyrus, and includes part of area 7 as well as area 37. It maintains rich interconnections with the visual, auditory, and somesthetic associations areas including the middle (basal) temporal lobe, the superior colliculus via the pulvinar, the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, and massive interconnections with the frontal lobes, inferior temporal region, and other higher order assimilation areas throughout the neocortex.

Within the inferior parietal lobe is the multi-modal assimilation area