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Higher Cortical Functions Multimodal Association Areas

1. The document discusses several higher cortical functions including multimodal association areas in the parieto-occipitotemporal, prefrontal, and limbic regions. 2. The prefrontal association area is involved in motor planning and the elaboration of thought, storing working memories. 3. Damage to specific areas can cause disorders like Wernicke's aphasia affecting language comprehension, Broca's aphasia impairing speech articulation, or prosopagnosia inhibiting face recognition.

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Higher Cortical Functions Multimodal Association Areas

1. The document discusses several higher cortical functions including multimodal association areas in the parieto-occipitotemporal, prefrontal, and limbic regions. 2. The prefrontal association area is involved in motor planning and the elaboration of thought, storing working memories. 3. Damage to specific areas can cause disorders like Wernicke's aphasia affecting language comprehension, Broca's aphasia impairing speech articulation, or prosopagnosia inhibiting face recognition.

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HIGHER CORTICAL FUNCTIONS

MULTIMODAL ASSOCIATION AREAS


Parieto-Occipitotemporal Association Area Prefrontal Association Area Limbic Association Area Area for recognition of faces
- largest multimodal association area - association with the motor cortex to plan - behavior, emotion and motivation
- interpret meaning for signals complex patterns and sequences of motor - emotional drives
Functional sub-areas: movements - motivational drives for learning
1. Spatial coordinates (visual, auditory, body - motor planning: signals  basal ganglia -
surroundings) (caudate nucleus)  motor cortex  carries
2. Language comprehension out specific plan of action/movement
 Wernicke’s area - elaboration of thought
– higher intellectual function - process motor and non-motor information
– language comprehension and intelligence - stores “working memories” (short term) or
– connected to Broca’s area by arcuate planning memories
fasciculus  Broca’s area
3. Initial processing of visual language (reading) - word formation
 Angular gyrus - where plans and motor patterns for expressing
- makes meaning out of visually perceived individual words or short phrases
words - when a person learns a new language, are in
4. Area of naming objects brain where new language is stored is slightly
- names are learned mainly through auditory input removed from storage from the storage area
for the first language
- If both languages learned simultaneously =>
stored in the same area of brain
lesions/damage: lesions or damage: Prosopagnosia
Wernicke’s aphasia Motor disorders - inability to recognize faces
- loss of function of language comprehension - damage between prefrontal and basal - abnormal behavior, fluctuating emotions, loss of - damage to medial undersides of occipital
- damaged areas: supramarginal and angular ganglia motivation lobes and medioventral surface of temporal
gyrus and superior temporal gyrus Broca’s aphasia lobes
Dyslexia - lesions in pars opercularis and pars
- damage to angular gyrus triangularis
- - impaired articulation of speech
Locations:
posterior occipital cortex – visual sensory information posterior lateral prefrontal cortex and premotor area – occipital portion- visual cortex
anterior parietal cortex – somatosensory information Broca’s area temporal portion – limbic system
anterolateral region of occipital lobe- reading
lateral portions od anterior occipital lobe and posterior
temporal lobe – naming objects (auditory)

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