1B) Primary Visual Area: Receives visual information and is involved in visual perception.
1C) Primary Auditory Area: Receives information for sound and is involved in sound perception.
1D) Primary Gustatory Area: Receives impulses for taste and is involved in gustatory perception and taste discrimination.
1E) Primary Olfactory Area: Receives impulses for smell and is involved in olfactory perception.
2. Motor Areas
2A) Primary Motor Area: Located in the precentral gyrus of the frontal lobe. Each region in this area controls voluntary contractions of specific muscles or groups of muscle. Electrical stimulation of any point in this area causes contraction of specific skeletal muscle fibres on the opposite side of the body.
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