The Cerebral Hemispheres Flashcards
What separates the 2 cerebral hemispheres?
Longitudinal fissure
What separates the parietal from the occipital lobe?
Parietal-occipital sulcus
What sulcus is found in the median section running horizontally superior to the corpus callosum?
Cingulate sulcus
What separates the frontal lobe form the parietal lobe?
Central gyrus
What separates the frontal lobe from the temporal lobe?
Lateral sulcus
What separates the occipital lobe into 2?
Calcarine fissure
What makes up the medial portions of the cerebral hemisphere?
Limbic system
What is the function of the adjacent association areas?
They help us make sense of what we are feeling, touching, smelling etc.
I.e. we can feel that we have car keys in our pocket just by feeling - without looking at them
What is the area directly anterior to the pre-central gyrus and what is it ?
Primary motor cortex
Area 4
What is the area posterior to the post-central gyrus and what is it?
Areas 3,1,2
Primary sensory cortex
What is the name of the area which occupies the inferior part of the frontal lobe and what is it for?
Area 44, 45 inferior frontal gyrus
Broca’s area of motor speech - tell us how to talk I.e. by moving our lips
Where is the general sensory association area located?
Superior parietal lobule
In the dominant hemisphere what does the inferior lobule of the parietal lobe contribute to?
Language functions
What is the function of the inferior lobule of the parietal lobe?
Interference between somatosensory cortex and visual auditory association
What occurs as a consequence of parietal lobe lesion?
Hemisensory neglect
What is the main function of the temporal lobe?
Smelling and hearing
Within what lobe is area 41,42 located?
Temporal lobe