Nervous system & sense organs
Angular gyrus
Gyrus angularis
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Parietal lobe
DescriptionUnreviewed
The angular gyrus is a region of the brain lying mainly in the anterolateral region of parietal lobe, that lies near the superior edge of the temporal lobe, and immediately posterior to the supramarginal gyrus.
Its significance is in transferring visual information to Wernicke's area, in order to make meaning out of visually perceived words.
It is also involved in a number of processes related to language, number processing and spatial cognition, memory retrieval, attention, and theory of mind.
It is Brodmann area 39 of the human brain.
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Names
- Latin
- Gyrus angularis
- English
- Angular gyrus
- French
- Gyrus angulaire
- Spanish
- Giro angular
- Portuguese
- Giro angular