Gyri of the Brain

Question 1

Precentral Gyrus

Answer 1

Primary motor cortex, controls voluntary movements.
– Essential for motor speech disorders as it influences speech production muscles.

Question 2

Postcentral Gyrus

Answer 2

Primary somatosensory cortex, processes sensory information.
– Important for sensory feedback in
speech and swallowing.

Question 3

Superior Temporal Gyrus

Answer 3

Processes auditory information and is involved in language comprehension.
–Critical for language processing and auditory verbal comprehension.

Question 4

Middle Temporal Gyrus

Answer 4

Involved in semantic memory
and language processing.
–Helps in understanding and processing the meaning of words and sentences.

Question 5

Inferior Temporal Gyrus

Answer 5

Visual object recognition

Question 6

Frontal Gyrus

Answer 6

Involved in reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement, emotions, and problem-solving tasks.

Question 7

Cingulate Gyrus

Answer 7

Emotional processing,
learning, and memory.

Question 8

Supramarginal Gyrus

Answer 8

Phonological processing and
part of Wernicke’s area.

Question 9

Angular Gyrus

Answer 9

Processes language, numbers, and spatial cognition.

Question 10

Parahippocampal Gyrus

Answer 10

Memory encoding and retrieval.