Broadman Areas

Question 1

How many different Broadman Areas are there?

Answer 1

47

Question 2

What is the location of B.A. 1, 2, 3?

Answer 2

Post-central gyrus

Question 3

Also known as the somesthetic cortex, these B.A. function to integrate pain, thermal, deep touch, light touch, vibratory, and kinesthetic sensations.

Answer 3

1, 2, 3

Question 4

Broadman Area ___ is located along the precentral gyrus and initiates voluntary motor functions. Especially in the distal extremities and facial and oral musculature.

Answer 4

4

Question 5

What is the location of B.A. 4?

Answer 5

Pre-central gyrus

Question 6

What B.A. is the primary auditory cortex, and where is it located?

Answer 6

41, Superior Temporal Gyrus along Heschl’s gyrus.

Question 7

What is the function of B.A. 9, 10, 11, 12?

Answer 7

Thoughts, reasoning, imagining, and emotions.

Question 8

What is the function of B.A. 4?

Answer 8

Voluntary motor initiation

Question 9

What B.A.s can synthesize memory and sensations into creative functions such as reading writing and speaking.

Answer 9

5, 7, 39, 40

Question 10

Lesions in this B.A. #___ are especially destructive resulting in forms of alexia and agraphia (deficiency in reading and writing respectively).

Answer 10

39

Question 11

What is the location of B.A. #44?

Answer 11

Frontal operculum along the lateral inferior surface of the frontal lobe.

Question 12

What is the location of B.A. 6 and 8?

Answer 12

Just in front of Broadman area 4. “Pre-motor” regions

Question 13

What is the location of B.A. 17 (primary visual cortex)?

Answer 13

Along the calcarine sulcus

Question 14

What B.A. is responsible for taste reception?

Answer 14

43

Question 15

B.A. 17 receives information from where?

Answer 15

lateral geniculate body

Question 16

Where is the location of B.A. #39?

Answer 16

Angular gyrus

Question 17

What B.A. do we “see” with?

Answer 17

17

Question 18

What B.A. is Wernicke’s area and where is it located?

Answer 18

22, surrounds B.A. 41 and extends nearly into the Parietal lobe

Question 19

Damage to what areas cause alexia and agraphia

Answer 19

5,7, 39,40 (Mainly #39)

Question 20

What is the function of B.A. 22?

Answer 20

Hearing memory. Also structures the formation of the written word.

Question 21

In what lobe or B.A. do our thoughts and reasoning occur?

Answer 21

9, 10, 11, 12

Question 22

What B.A. senses the body’s position in space?

Answer 22

1, 2, 3. Somesthetic cortex

Question 23

What neurons does B.A. 4 contain?

Answer 23

Pyramidal or Betz cells

Question 24

B.A. 22 gets info from where?

Answer 24

Parietal lobe (B.A. 5, 7, 39, 40) and the Occipital lobe (B.A. 17, 18, 19).

Question 25

What lamina of B.A. 9, 10, 11, 12 is well developed?

Answer 25

II, III (the associative cortex)

Question 26

What is another name for B.A. 17?

Answer 26

"striae cortex" because of a white band running through lamina IV

Question 27

What is the function of B.A. 43?

Answer 27

Gustatory (taste)

Question 28

A leison in B.A. 18 and 19 may result in what?

Answer 28

Prosopagnosia: can't remember faces. Inhibition of correlating present images with past experience

Question 29

What lobe is involved in prefrontal lobotomies?

Answer 29

9, 10, 11, 12

Question 30

What is the location of B.A.s 9, 10, 11, 12?

Answer 30

Pre-frontal region of the anterior and rostral most parts of the frontal lobe

Question 31

Location of B.A. #39

Answer 31

Angular gyrus

Question 32

Location of B.A. #4

Answer 32

Pre-central gyrus

Question 33

Location of B.A. 6 and 8

Answer 33

Just in front of B.A. 4 (pre-motor area)

Question 34

Function of B.A. 9, 10, 11, 12

Answer 34

Thoughts, reasoning, imagination, and emotions

Question 35

Function of B.A. 1, 2, 3

Answer 35

The Somesthetic area of the cortex. This is the body sensing area. Pain, thermal and touch sensations are first integrated here.

Question 36

QUIZ QUESTION | What pathway connects Broadman Area 22 to 44?

Answer 36

Arcuate fasciculus

Question 37

QUIZ QUESTION | What area is the frontal operculum home to?

Answer 37

44

Question 38

QUIZ QUESTION | What area receives input from the medial geniculate body?

Answer 38

41

Question 39

QUIZ QUESTION | What sulcus runs through area 17?

Answer 39

Calcarine

Question 40

QUIZ QUESTION | What area contains the Sensory Homunculus?

Answer 40

1, 2, 3