Chapter 12 handout

Primary Motor area

Voluntary movement of skeletal muscle

Premotor area

learned motor skills

Broca area

Frontal lobe, lateralized in the left hemisphere, speech production

Frontal eye field

voluntary eye movement

Primary somato sensory area

To receive sensory info from skin to skeletal muscle

Primary visual area

receives visual info from the retina of eye.

Primary auditory area

receives sound info from ear.

Visceral sensory area

perceptions of visceral sensations

Pre frontal cortex

Intellect, judgment, reasoning, and conscious.

Wernic area

language interpretation; located along lateral sulcus usually lateralized in the left hemisphere