Lobes of the Brain
this lobe contains the primary visual cortex
What is the occipital lobe?
This cranial nerve delivers sound from the ear to the brainstem.
What is CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear)?
This 1848 railroad worker survived massive frontal lobe damage, altering his personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
Language is made up of content, form, and this third component.
What is use?
The fusiform gyrus, used for object recognition and naming, is part of this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
For reading comprehension, visual information first reaches this lobe.
What is the occipital lobe?
This patient, known for saying only the word “Tan,” helped identify speech production areas.
Who is Broca’s patient (Tan)?
Speech requires these four subsystems: respiration, phonation, resonation, and ________.
What is articulation?
Executive functioning, initiation, and inhibition are located primarily in this lobe.
What is the frontal lobe?
This area of the brain maps auditory or visual information to language meaning.
What is Wernicke’s area?
Wernicke proposed in 1874 that language comprehension is located in this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
Reading comprehension is an example of this type of language.
What is receptive language?
The supramarginal gyrus, involved in phonological representation, is located in this lobe.
What is the parietal lobe?
In the oral expression pathway, this lobe generates thoughts and initiates speech.
What is the prefrontal cortex (frontal lobe)?
This imaging technique shows brain activity by measuring blood flow changes.
What is fMRI?
Spoken expression falls under this broader category of language.
What is expressive language?
This deep cortical structure within the lateral sulcus contributes to emotional processing and motor programs of the mouth.
What is the insular cortex?
This structure is involved in both reading and auditory comprehension due to its role in integrating sensory information for meaning.
What are the angular and supramarginal gyri?
This modern imaging tool shows metabolic activity using radioactive tracers.
What is a PET scan?
Selecting vocabulary, building sentences, and interpreting meaning describe this domain.
What is language (as opposed to speech)?