Answer: Speech production (motor speech).
- A Vision processing, relayed from the occipital lobe
- B Speech production (motor speech)
- C Hearing, processed primarily in the temporal lobe
- D Memory only, consolidated in the hippocampus
Correct answer: B. Speech production (motor speech)
Explanation: Broca's area (left inferior frontal gyrus): controls speech production. Damage causes Broca's aphasia -- can understand but cannot produce fluent speech.
Structure of a neuron. Image: LadyofHats (Mariana Ruiz), Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Concept context
Brain, spinal cord, neurons, reflex arcs, and sense organs.