The parietal lobe plays important roles in integrating sensory information from various parts of the body, knowledge of numbers and their relations, and in the manipulation of objects. Its function also includes processing information relating to the sense of touch.he major sensory inputs from the skin (touch, temperature, and pain receptors), relay through the thalamus to the parietal lobe. Several areas of the parietal lobe are important in language processing.
âLike father, like son,â runs the old adage. In the case of Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, he was like his father and also his grandfatherâeven though the two men were polar opposites. The Durant story shows how family and entrepreneurship blended to start the largest car company in the world.
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