Association areas of the lobes

[lolbox]

What exactly are these? How do they work/what do they do

[Visionz]

Theyre just the areas of the cortex that dont have a major function. ie. every part of the cortex that isnt primary visual/auditory/motor, wernickes area, etc. Anything apart from those special areas we were taught about are association areas.
They help integrate information from other cortical areas. Something like that.

[Transcendent]

Aren't Broca's area and Wernicke's area considered association areas of the left frontal/temporal lobe respectively?

[yien_quek]

Transcendent, you are correct. Association areas are areas that integrate both motor and sensory information. You should already know by now that Broca's Area is an association area of the LEFT frontal lobe and Wernicke's Area is an association area of the LEFT temporal lobe. However, they are NOT the only association areas.

For example, if a question asks: what is a function of the association areas in the left frontal lobe, you could say the production of articulate speech. If its asks for right frontal lobe, that answer would be wrong, and you could put something else, planning/abstract reasoning/personality for example.

[Visionz]

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...Any part of the cortex which is not a primary motor/visual/somatosensory/auditory area.

[akira88]

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...Any part of the cortex which is not a primary motor/visual/somatosensory/auditory area.

What I thought too........

[Glockmeister]

The association areas are very important though. Don't diss it.