ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Goel et al (2000), which part of the brain may be responsible for processing abstract problems? The parietal lobe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The parietal lobe is vital for sensory perception and integration, including the management of taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Your parietal lobe helps with your sense of direction relative to the world around you. A major part of that is how you tell left from right, how you orient yourself and parts of your body using your eyesight, and how you understand sensory input from both sides of your body.

Detailed explanation-4: -The prefrontal cortex (PFC) intelligently regulates our thoughts, actions and emotions through extensive connections with other brain regions (BOX 1).

Detailed explanation-5: -A second reason may be that the left and right parietal areas play different roles in numerical processing, with the left parietal cortex more engaged in exact, language-dependent number processing, and the right parietal cortex more involved in approximate number processing (e.g. Dehaene et al., 1999).