Areas of the Cortex

voluntary movement of skeletal muscles

• primary motor cortex

• premotor area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Broca's Area

• Prefrontal Area

integrates sensory & motor information to perform actions

• primary motor cortex

• premotor area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Broca's Area

• Prefrontal Area

language and speech formation

• olfactory cortex

• Auditory association area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Broca's Area

• Prefrontal Area

problem solving, decision making, complex thoughts, and personality

• olfactory cortex

• Auditory association area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Broca's Area

• Prefrontal Area

receives information related to smell

• olfactory cortex

• Auditory association area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Auditory cortex

• Prefrontal Area

Complex processing of auditory information (hearing)

• olfactory cortex

• Auditory association area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Auditory cortex

• Prefrontal Area

Receives auditory information (pitch, tone, sound quality, loudness)

• olfactory cortex

• Auditory association area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• Auditory cortex

• Prefrontal Area

Receives information related to taste

• olfactory cortex

• Gustatory cortex

• primary somatosensory cortex

• sensory association area

• visual association area

Receive tactile information (pain, pressure, touch) from the body to create a perceptual & positional map of the body

• olfactory cortex

• Gustatory cortex

• primary somatosensory cortex

• sensory association area

• visual association area

Processes multisensory information

• visual cortex

• Wernicke's Area

• primary somatosensory cortex

• sensory association area

• visual association area