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Cingulate gyrus (belt ridge in eng.) is a gyrus in the medial part of the brain. It partially wraps around the corpus callosum and is limited above by the cingulate sulcus.
The cortical part of the cingulate gyrus is referred to as cingulate cortex.
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The cingulate gyrus receives inputs from the anterior nucleus of the thalamus and the neocortex, as well as from somatosensory areas of the cerebral cortex. It projects to the entorhinal cortex via the cingulum.
[edit] Function
It functions as an integral part of the limbic system, which is involved with emotion formation and processing, learning, and memory. Also, executive control needed to suppress inappropriate unconscious priming is known to involve the anterior cingulate gyrus.
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Brain: telencephalon (cerebrum, cerebral cortex, cerebral hemispheres) |
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| Frontal lobe |
Precentral gyrus ( Primary motor cortex, 4)
Superior frontal gyrus/Frontal eye fields (6, 8, 9), Middle frontal gyrus (46), Inferior frontal gyrus/Broca's area (44-Pars opercularis, 45-Pars triangularis)
Orbitofrontal cortex (10, 11, 12, 47)
Prefrontal cortex, Premotor cortex
Precentral sulcus - Superior frontal sulcus - Inferior frontal sulcus - Olfactory sulcus
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| Parietal lobe |
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| Occipital lobe |
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| Temporal lobe |
Primary auditory cortex ( 41, 42), Superior temporal gyrus ( 38, 22/ Wernicke's area), Middle temporal gyrus ( 21), Inferior temporal gyrus ( 20)
Fusiform gyrus ( 37) Medial temporal lobe ( Amygdala, Parahippocampal gyrus ( 27, 28, 34, 35, 36)
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| Cingulate cortex/gyrus |
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| Interlobar sulci/fissures |
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| White matter tracts |
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| Some categorizations are approximations, and some Brodmann areas span gyri. |
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