GENERAL HISTOLOGY

NERVOUS SYSTEM SPECIAL SENSE

CEREBRUM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This Brodmann area is responsible for recognition of and NAMING the objects by touch and proprioception
A
40
B
22
C
39
D
43
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Primary somatosensory cortex (or Postcentral gyrus) – this is numbered rostral to caudal as 3, 1, 2. This region is associated with several senses, such as the ones for: localization of touch, temperature, vibration, pain. sensory perception (two-point discrimination, proprioception, etc.)

Detailed explanation-2: -The left-hemisphere Brodmann area 44 and Brodmann area 45 make up Broca’s area, a region that is active in semantic tasks, such as semantic decision tasks (determining whether a word represents an abstract or a concrete entity) and generation tasks (generating a verb associated with a noun).

Detailed explanation-3: -Brodmann area 44 is part of the prefrontal cortex in the human brain and is located anterior to the premotor cortex BA6 and inferior to BA9 on the lateral surface.

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