Functional Areas of Cerebral Cortex

Primary Sensory Areas

• 1 for every sense you have

• visual cortex, taste area, primary somatic sensory cortex, primary auditory cortex

• the first point of processing for incoming sensory information from the body

Association Area

• adjacent to a primary sensory area

• auditory association area, somatic sensory association area, visual association area

• integrating sensory information, interpreting meaning, planning, and decision-making

Prefrontal Area

• responding to something, decision making, motivation, emotion behind a response

Premotor Area

• Staging part, nerve impulses collected and organized before an action occurs

Primary Command

• the primary part of the brain that gives out command to other parts of the body (do, speak, snap, walk, etc)

• does NOT do the command, but it give it

Speech Areas: Sensory Speech

• understanding what your going to say before you say it

Speech Areas: Motor Speech

• like the premotor area, except for speech only

• Organizes speech nerve impulses