Brain Functions

Initiation of voluntary movement

• Broca's area

• Primary motor cortex

• Motor association area

• Olfactory association area

• Prefrontal cortex

Coordination of complex movements

• Reticular formation

• Prefrontal cortex

• Primary motor cortex

• Motor association area

• Broca's area

Speech production and articulation

• Motor association area

• Olfactory association area

• Primary motor cortex

• Prefrontal cortex

• Broca's area

Problem solving, emotion, complex thought

• Prefrontal cortex

• Broca's area

• Olfactory association area

• Primary motor cortex

• Motor association area

Interprets the sense of smell

• Motor association area

• Prefrontal cortex

• Olfactory association area

• Primary motor cortex

• Broca's area

Receives tactile information from the body

• Primary somatosensory cortex

• Primary motor cortex

• Motor association area

• Broca's area

• Prefrontal cortex

Perception of taste

• Primary motor cortex

• Gustatory cortex

• Broca's area

• Prefrontal cortex

• Motor association area

Language comprehension

• Broca's area

• Prefrontal cortex

• Primary motor cortex

• Wernicke's area

• Motor association area

Detection of simple visual stimuli

• Primary visual cortex

• Broca's area

• Prefrontal cortex

• Primary motor cortex

• Motor association area

Complex processing of visual information

• Broca's area

• Motor association area

• Visual association area

• Prefrontal cortex

• Primary motor cortex