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Brodmann's area

A classification of areas of the cerebral cortex according to assigned numbers. Classification: 1) primary sensory cortex & motor cortex a) primary visual cortex, striate cortex (area 17) b) primary auditory cortex (areas 41, 42) c) primary somatosensory cortex (areas 1, 2, 3 but mostly 3b) d) primary motor cortex (area 4) 2) unimodal association cortex a) unimodal visual cortx - peristriate cortex, upstream visual cortex (areas 18, 19) - downstream visual association cortex (area 37) b) unimodal auditory cortex (area 22) c) unimodal somatosensory cortex (area 5, rostral area 7) d) unimodal motor cortex, premotor cortex (areas 6, caudal 8, 44) 3) heteromodal association cortex - heteromodal prefrontal cortex (areas 9, 10, 45, 46, 47, rostral parts of 11, 12, 32) - heteromodal parietotemporal cortex (areas 39, 40, caudal parts of area 7, banks of superior temporal sulcus, area 36) 4) paralimbic cortex - insula (areas 14, 15) - temporopolar cortex (area 38) - caudal orbitofrontal cortex (caudal areas 11, 12) - cingulate complex (areas 23, 24, 31, 33, 25, 26, 29,caudal parts of area 32) - parahippocampal cortex (areas 28, 34, 35, 30)

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References

  1. Clinical Anatomy Made Ridiculously Simple. Stephen Goldberg, MedMaster Inc, Miami, 1995
  2. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 134
  3. lumen Anatomy & Physiology. Module 12. The Nervous System The Central Nervous System Brodmann;s Areas of the Cerebral Cortex https://courses.lumenlearning.com/austincc-ap1/chapter/the-central-nervous-system/#m46533-fig-ch13_02_03