Temporal Lobe

Question 1

Temporal Lobe landmark:

near ?
general function=

Answer 1

primary auditory cortex: B-41-42
Heschl’s gyrus

lateral sulcus
processing of auditory/sound info

Question 2

Associated Area: 
Wernicke's 
-what Brodmann area 
-in ?
analysis of 
comprehension of 
storage and retrieval of ? 
retrieval of ?

Answer 2

B-22
language dominant hemisphere (usually left)

• speech sounds
• spoken language
• mental representations of words and word meanings
• grammatical rules

Question 3

Temporal lobe general function

Answer 3

auditory comprehension
memory
music

Question 4

Associated Symptoms:

Left

Answer 4

impaired verbal memory

impaired auditory comprehension (Wernickes aphasia)

Question 5

Associated Symptoms:

Right

Answer 5

impaired appreciation of music rhythm environmental sounds

impaired nonverbal memory

Question 6

Occipital Lobe:
smallest
landmark
functions

Answer 6

lobe
primary visual cortex ( B-17) and visual associated areas

processing of visual info from contralateral visual field

Question 7

Function and Associated symptoms

Answer 7

visual processing

vision impairment
cortical blindness