Brodmann Areas, or Brodmann's Areas, are 52 numbered regions of the brain, which are differentiated based on their cytoarchitectural features. Brodmann areas were originally documented by Korbinian Brodmann. When used they are often shorthanded as BA followed by the number, e.g., "BA17."

#	Title	Notes/other
1	primary somatosensory cortex (1 of 3)	areas 3,1,2 comprise S1
2	primary somatosensory cortex (2 of 3)	areas 3,1,2 comprise S1
3	primary somatosensory cortex (3 of 3)	areas 3,1,2 comprise S1
...3A	. . .A subdivision of BA3	areas 3,1,2 comprise S1
...3B	. . .B subdivision of BA3	areas 3,1,2 comprise S1
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4	Primary Motor Cortex	M1
5	Part of parietle cortext	somatosensory association
6	Major part of frontal cortext	No layer IV
7	Posterior of superior parietal lobe	Spacial relationships: world to body
8	Back part of frontal cortext	Frontal eye fields
9	Part of dorsolateral prefrontal cortext	Posterior part of frontal lobe
10	Rostral prefrontal cortex	Frontopolar part of the frontal cortex
11	Prefrontal area 11	No layer IV
12	Most rostral portion of frontal lobe	Very distinct layer IV
13	Posterior of the insular cortex,
14	Embedded within insular cortex	Not in humans?
15	On anterior temporal lobe (facing insula)	within Sylvian Fissure
16	peripaleocortical claustral/td>	Rostral area (more)
17	Occipital region of cerebral cortex	Primary visual cortex V1
18	Within occipital lobe, Area occipitalis	Secondary visual area, V2
19	Preoccipital cortex	striate cortex
20	Most of ventral temporal cortex	High-level visual processing (believed)
21	Auditory association straddles 42	21 and 22 are Wernicke's area
22	Auditory association straddles 42	21 and 22 are Wernicke's area
23	Ventral posterior cingulate cortex	limbic system integration(?)

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