Cerebral Cortex Gyri and Functional Areas

Question 1

Primary motor region – controls fine, highly skilled “voluntary” movements

Answer 1

Precentral gyrus

Question 2

Premotor cortex - initiation of motor activity and gross motor acts

Answer 2

Superior and middle frontal gyri

Question 3

Frontal eye field - part of premotor area, involved in voluntary eye movement

Answer 3

Middle frontal gyrus (caudal part)

Question 4

Cognition; problem solving, foresight, mature judgment, tactfulness, planning

Answer 4

Prefrontal cortex (sup, mid, inf frontal gyri)

Question 5

Primary visual cortex

Answer 5

Lingual gyrus, cuneus

Question 6

Primary auditory cortex

Answer 6

Transverse temporal gyri

Question 7

Primary somesthetic cortex

Answer 7

Postcentral gyrus

Question 8

Somatosensory association cortex

Answer 8

Superior parietal lobule

Question 9

Multisensory association cortex; association area inter- relating somesthetic, visual and auditory stimuli

Answer 9

Inferior parietal lobule (supramarginal and angular gyri)

Question 10

Visual association cortex

Answer 10

Occipital gyri

Question 11

Auditory association cortex

Answer 11

Superior temporal gyrus

Question 12

Motor Speech (Broca’s area)

Answer 12

Inferior frontal gyrus

Question 13

Primary sensory and motor cortex associated with lower limb

Answer 13

Paracentral lobule

Question 14

Olfactory system

Answer 14

Parahippocampal gyrus

Question 15

Limbic system

Answer 15

Cingulate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, hippocampus, dentate gyrus