ELECTRODE / SITE
FP1 ba10L
FPz ba10L
FP2 ba10R
AF7 ba46L
AF3 ba09L
AFz ba09L
AF4 ba09R
AF8 ba46R
F7 ba47L
F5 ba46L
F3 ba08L
F1 ba08L
Fz ba08L
F2 ba08R
F4 ba08R
F6 ba46R
F8 ba45R
FT9 ba20L
FT7 ba47L
FC5 BROCLA
FC3 ba06L
FC1 ba06L
FCz ba06R
FC2 ba06R
FC4 ba06R
FC6 ba44R
FT8 ba47R
FT10 ba20R
T7 ba42L
C5 ba42L
C3 ba02L
C1 ba05L
Cz ba05L
C2 ba05R
C4 ba01R
C6 ba41R
T8 ba21R
TP7 ba21L
CP5 ba40L
CP3 ba02L
CP1 ba05L
CPz ba05R
CP2 ba05R
CP4 ba40R
CP6 ba40R
TP8 ba21R
P9 ba20L
P7 ba37L
P5 ba39L
P3 ba39L
P1 ba07L
Pz ba07R
P2 ba07R
P4 ba39R
P6 ba39R
P8 ba37R
P10 ba37R
PO7 ba19L
PO3 ba19L
POz ba17L
PO4 ba19R
PO8 ba19R
O1 ba18L
Oz ba17R
O2 ba18R
Here is the anatomical gyral names of the various Brodmann areas. Recall that there is a Brodmann area in both left and right hemisphere, the homologues.
Gyrus (Functional name)
1-3 – intermediate, caudal, and rostral postcentral (Primary Somatosensory Cortex)
4 - gigantopyramidal (Primary Motor Cortex)
5 - preparietal (Somatosensory Association Cortex)
6 - agranular frontal (Premotor cortex and Supplementary Motor Cortex)
7 - superior parietal (Somatosensory Association Cortex)
8 - intermediate frontal (includes Frontal eye fields)
9 - granular frontal (Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, DLFC)
10 - frontopolar (DLFC)
11 - prefrontal (Orbitofrontal)
12 - prefrontal (Orbitofrontal)
17 - striate (Primary visual cortex, V1)
18 - parastriate (Secondary visual cortex, V2)
19 - peristriate (Tertiary or Associative visual cortex, V3)
20 - inferior temporal
21 - middle temporal
22 - superior temporal (caudal section considered Wernicke's area by most)
23 - ventral posterior cingulate
24 - ventral anterior cingulate
31 - dorsal posterior cingulate
32 - dorsal anterior cingulate
37 - occipitotemporal
38 - temporopolar (temporal pole)
39 – angular
40 - supramarginal
41-42 – ant. & posterior transverse temporal
44 - opercular (part of Broca's area on left hemisphere)
45 - triangular (part of Broca's area on left hemisphere)
46 - middle frontal
47 - orbital
48 - retrosubicular
EXCLUDED FROM SKIL BRODMANN MONTAGE due to small size and distance from scalp
FP1 covers Brodmann area 10 on the front left side of the frontal lobe. This is part of the prefrontal cortex, that highly developed part of the brain which sets us apart from other mammals since it is responsible for the execution of cognitive tasks. Complex behaviours and simultaneous mental activities need a kind of working memory that keeps track of running tasks in either pending states or executive states. For most cognitive functions information needs to be retrieved after completion of another task. The prefrontal cortex co-ordinates all of this mental traffic and shows clear elevation in beta levels when performing calculative tasks, logical puzzles or other intellectual questions. FP2 covers the right side of the prefrontal cortex.
F7 and F8 cover parts of the frontal cortex. The frontal cortex is involved in integrating sensory information with data retrieval from memory locations. This way new sensory information can be compared with earlier perceptions. Area 45 – which is one part of Broca’s area, a brain centre dedicated to language production – at position F8 is also believed to recover semantic information and to evaluate that information in the light of the current context.
C3 and C4 are located on top of the primary somatosensory cortex, in the parietal part of the cortex. This is a clearly defined strip on top of the brain responsible for processing touch and sensation as well as keeping track of the location of your body parts (proprioception).
The two electrodes at the back of the headset, O1 and O2 for the occipital area of the cortex, cover the secondary visual cortex which is processing information relating to visual association. Cells are tuned to simple properties such as orientation, spatial frequency, and color. Depending on the exact positioning of the headset – which is likely to be slightly different per individual – they might also track the primary visual cortex from which the information is forwarded to the secondary visual cortex. Primary cortex here corresponds to Brodmann area 17 and the secondary to area 18. The connectivity between primary and secondary cortices is important for visual memory.
1 2 & 3 Bilateral
1 2 & 3 L
1 2 & 3R
(Primary motor cortex - Precentral gyrus)
4
Muscle sequences
Move hands
Limbs
Sense of our fingers
Softness and vibration
Move tongue and mouth
Actions, Touches
Swallow
Voluntary breathing
Muscle imagery
Blinking
Eye movements
Bicycling
4L
4R
(Secondary sensorimotor cortex )
5
Chaotic patterns
Spatial reasoning
Muscle imagery
Tool-use gestures
Muscles
Mirror neurons
Coordinate hands
Saccades
Working memory
Tactile
Pain
Muscle locations
5L
5R
(Premotor cortex or Lateral Premotor Area (PMA); Supplementary Motor Area (SMA))
6
6L
Speech muscles
Novel words
Phonemes
Object names
Deduction
Inhibit response
6R
Sequential moves
Monitor errors
Strong odors
Same or different
(Superior parietal lobule)
7
7L
Recall episodes
Tool use
Handwriting and spelling
Shift attention
Language
Literalness
Imageability
7R
Personal space
Estimate
Meta-emotions
Visuospatial attention
Mental rotation
Stereopsis
Line bisection judgments
(Lateral and medial supplementary motor area)
8
8L
8R
Memory retrieval
Nonconscious saccades
(Middle frontal gyrus)
9
Short-term memory
Recency
Orchestrate behavior
Verbal fluency
Word-stem completion
Error detection
Human voices
Infer (a, b, ?)
Intentions
Action authorship
Energize
9L
Generate sentences
Inference
Idioms
Categorization
9R
Suppress sadness
Working memory
Spatial memory
Recognition
Recall
Recognize emotions
Planning
Calculation
Familiar odors
10
Working memory
Spatial memory
Recognition
Recall
Intentional forgetting
Nonspeech sounds
Recognize emotions
Calculation
Pain
Joint attention
10L
10R
Recall episode(a)
Nonspeech sounds
Familiar odors
Reward vs conflict
Risk vs benefit
(Gyrus rectus)
11
Olfaction
Nonspeech sounds
Reward vs conflict
11L
Unexpected outcomes
Idioms
Face-name
11R
12
12L
12R
(Insular Cortex)
13
13L
13RBold Text
(Primary visual cortex)
17
Receive
Light intensity
Orderly visual patterns
Contours
Colors
Spatial orientation
Motion
Organize
Visual attention
Visual priming
17L
17R
(Secondary visual cortex -Middle occipital gyrus)
18
Receive
Organize
Monitor color and shape
Visual priming
Face-name
Express
18L
Visual word form
Visual mental imagery
18R
(Secondary visual cortex - Inferior occipital gyrus)
19
19L
Saccades
Visual imagery
Inferential reasoning
19R
Animacy
Visuospatial challenge
Motion
Visuo-spatial
Visual priming
Visual recognition
Spatial working memory
Face-name
Saccades a)
Visual imagery
(Inferior temporal, Fusiform and Parahippocampal gyri)
20
Visual fixation
Identify intention
20L
20R
Category ambiguity
Perceptual closure
Working memory
(Middle temporal gyrus)
21
Categorization
Observe motion
Complex sounds
Attribute intention
21L
Monitor text and speech
Sentence generation
Word generation
Deductive reasoning
21R
(Superior Temporal Gyrus - Part of Wernicke's area)
22
Sentence generation
Word generation
Monitor speech
Repeating words
Complex sounds
Deductive reasoning
22L
22R
Affective prosody
Nonverbal sounds
Previous eye movements
(Posterior cingulate gyrus)
23
23L
Lexical categories
Fear conditioning
Threatening words
Mood swings
23R
Cortical hub in infancy
Disconnects with trauma
Word and face encoding
(Anterior cingulate gyrus)
24
Process pain or unpleasantness
Inhibiting responses
Processing emotional cues
Muscle strategy
Sense of balance
Episodic memory
Timekeeping or time-based memory
Visuospatial attention
Divided attention
Auditory attention
Self-other overlap
Process familiar odors
Taste
Sexual arousal
Reasoning
Working memory
24L
Object-naming
Verbal fluency
Induction
Remembering after delay
Multitasking
Worry
Mood swings
24R
(Subgenual gyrus)
25
25L
25R
26
26L
26R
(Hippocampal areas - Part of medial temporal lobe)
27
* Pattern separation (overlapping representations are made less similar)
* Face memory
* Picture memory
* Auditory memory(a)
* Emotions
* Categories
* Visual memory
* Autobiographical memory
* Olfactory and gustatory memory
* Recognition, recall and retrieval
* Procedural memory consolidation
* Memory for novelty
* Memory for negative stimuli
* Face-based emotional perception
* Erotica
* Experience stress
* Congruent facial movements (mirror neurons)
* Craving
* Hunger
* Embarassment
* Spatial
* Landmarks (a, b, c )
* Novelty
* Past and future events
* Anticipating regret
* Insight
* Decision-making
27L
* Categorization (a, b, c,)
27R
28
28L
28R
29
29L
29R
30
30L
Attending to speech
Listening to sentences
30R
31
31L
31R
32
32L
Visual uncertainty
Mood regulation
32R
33
33L
33R
34
34L
34R
35
35L
35R
36
36L
36R
(Posterior inferior temporal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, and fusiform gyrus)
37
Episodes
Faces
Motion
Visual fixation
Monitor color and shape
Intentions
Drawing
37L
Categorization
Word retrieval
Sign language
Metaphor
Reading (GPC)
Face-name
Deduction
Numbers
37R
Familiarity judgments
Face identity
(Temporal pole)
38
Intentions
Moral judgments
Experience emotions
Identify emotions
Attachment
Categorization
Speech comprehension
Verbal disambiguation
Stories
Aversive sounds
Familiarity
Humor
38L
Self/other
Attend to speech
Inferences
Identify social emotions
Aversiveness
People’s names
Music appreciation
38R
Familiar voices
Irony
Faux pas
Social behavior
(Angular gyrus; Part of Wernicke's area)
39
Reading
Spatial focusing
Theory of mind
Executive control
Action sequences
39L
Sentence generation
Verbal creativity
Numerical facts
Calculation
39R
(Inferior parietal lobule - Supramarginal gyrus)
40
40L
40R
Sentences
Self-reflection
Same or different
Sustain attention
(Primary auditory cortex - Heschl's gyrus)
41
Auditory
Harmony
Sound intensity
Pitch
Vowel segregation
Auditory priming
Auditory working memory
Visual speech perception
41L
41R
(Secondary auditory cortex)
42
Auditory
Harmony
Sound intensity
Pitch
Vowel segregation
Auditory priming
Auditory working memory
Visual speech perception
42L
42R
(Subcentral area)
43
43L
43R
(Inferior frontal gyrus - Pars opercularis)
44
Word generation
Unintelligible speech b
Attend to speech
Syntactic working memory
Working memory
Episodic memory
Declarative memory
Mirror other's movements
Speech programs
Tactile imagery
Goals
Word and face encoding
Arithmetics
Object manipulation
Familiar odors
Music appreciation
44L
44R
Express emotions
Speech intonation
Sentence comprehension
Inhibition actions
Generate melodies
Monitor actions
(Inferior frontal gyrus - Pars triangularis)
45
45L
Attend to speech
Lexical inflection
Generate melodic phrases
Familiar odors
Retrieving categories
Phonemes
45RBold Text
Affective prosody
Monitor actions
Timed behavior
(Medial frontal gyrus)
46
46L
Verbal fluency
Phonemes
Self-reflection
46R
(Inferior frontal gyrus - Pars orbitalis)
47
47L
47R