Neuroanatomy

links: Brodmann Areas reference:

6-3-2021

- ‘Orbito-’ actually refers to ‘by the orbits of the eyes’, and seems to be below what is referred to as ‘ventral’, i.e. the prefrontal cortex.
(These are not BA numbers). But the ‘major lobe’z are a good place to begin as a table of contents:
- Occipital Lobe: Occ. Contains most of the visual cortex (containing entirely BA17/V1, the primary visual cortex)
- Temporal Lobe: Processes sensory input; superior contains the primary auditory cortex (A1), which includes Wernicke’s Area. Primary somatosensory cortex.
  - Inferotemporal cortex recognizes visual objects
  - Implicated in areas for reading. Where visual appearances of objects are translated into verbal labels and vice versa.
  - Implicated in semantic knowledge/learning.
- Parietal Lobe: Contains primary somatosensory cortex (S1)
  - Encodes spatial locations; translates frames of reference, i.e. sensations on the body to visual coordinates, including to guide motor actions.
  - Encodes number/metrics, mathematics, and abstract relationships.
- Frontal Lobe
  - Begins with the primary motor cortex (M1) which gets more sophisticated the more rostral, onto the star of the show, prefrontal cortex.
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- I took it for granted that this has the same synesthetic associations as me: Green glutamate and GABA and cyan dopamine…

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