FIGURE   C



Divisions -Of The Cerebral  Cortex




Primary Sensory CortexNote the numbers refer to Broadmann's area.

  • Visual (area 17)
  • Auditory (areas 41, 42)
  • Somatosensory (areas 3, 1, 2, and predominantly 3b)


Primary Motor Cortex:

  • Area 4 and the caudal portion of
    Area 6


Association Cortex:

  • Unimodal Visual
    (areas 18, 19, 20, 21, 37)
  • Unimodal Auditory (area 22)
  • Unimodal Somatosensory
    (area 5, and the rostral portion of area 7)
  • Unimodal Motor
    (rostral area 6, caudal area 8, and area 44)
  • Heteromodal preFrontal
    (areas 9, 10, 11, 45, 46, 47, rostral area 8, rostral area 12, and rostral area 32)
  • Heteromodal ParietoTemporal
    (areas 39, 40, caudal area 7, banks of superior Temporal sulcus, area 36)



Limbic System:

  • Paralimbic cortex
      (Insula; Temporopolar cortex- area 38; caudal orbitoFrontal cortex- caudal area 12, 13; Cingulate complex- areas 23, 24, 33, 31, 26, 29; paraOlfactory region- area 25, caudal area 32; paraHippocampal cortex- areas 28, 34, 35, 30)

  • Core Limbic formations
      (Hippocampus, Amygdala, Substantia innominata, Septal nuclei, Pyriform Olfactory cortex)

  • Limbic Basal Ganglia and related structures
      (nucleus accumbens, medial Globus Pallidus, ventral tegmental area of Tsai, Habenula)

  • Limbic Thalamus
      (midline nuclei, anterior tubercle nuclei, laterodorsal nucleus, dorsomedial nucleus, medial pulvinar nucleus)

  • Hypothalamic nuclei

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