AREA

LOBE AREA LOCATION FUNCTION EFFECT OF LESION

NO.

Precentral gyrus and Voluntary control of Contralateral paralysis and

Motor Area 4
paracentral lobule opposite half of the body Jacksonian fits

Posterior parts of superior,

Controls extrapyramidal Often mixed with
Premotor Area 6 middle and inferior frontal
system pyramidal effects
gyri
Controls horizontal
Posterior part of middle Horizontal conjugate
Frontal lobe Frontal eye field 6,8 conjugate movements of
frontal gyrus movements are lost
the eyes

Motor speech area (Broca’s Pars triangularis and pars Controls the spoken
44,45, Motor aphasia
area) opercularis speech

9, 10, 11,
Prefrontal area
Sensory (somaesthetic) area
The remaining large,
12 anterior part of frontal lobe
Post central gyrus and para
3,1,2
central lobule
Controls emotions,
concentration, attention, Loss of orientation
initiative and judgment
Perception of
exteroceptive impulses Loss of appreciation of
(touch, pain, temperature impulses received
and proprioception)

Parietal lobe Between sensory and visual Stereognosis and sensory Aseterognosis and sensory
Sensory association area 5,7
areas specch aphasia

Inferior part of parietal

Wernicke’s area 22 Sensory speech Sensory aphasia
lobule
 Reception amd
perception of isolated
Visuosensory area or striate In and around the visual impressions of Homonymous hemiapnopia
17
area postcalcarine sulcus color. size, form, motion, with macular sparing
illumination and
transparency
Occipital Lobe

Correlation of visual
Visuopsychic area, impulses with past
parastriate and peristriate 18,19 Surround the striate area memory and recognition Visual agnosia
area of objects seen, and also
depth

Reception and perception

Posterior part of superior
of isolated auditory
Auditosensory area 41,42 temporal gyrus and anterior Impaired hearing
impressions of loudness,
transverse temporal gyrus
quality and pitch

Temporal Lobe
Correlation of auditory
impressions with past
Rest of superior temporal
Auditopsychic area 22 memory and Auditory agnosia
gyrus
identification of the
sound heard