<p>Brodmann areas 41, and 42 are all parts of the auditory cortex. In extreme cases, damage here will show loss in the conscious awareness of sound, 41 and 42 are areas that comprise Herschel’s gyrus, an area that is known for picking up and recognizing the paralinguistics of speech (including prosody, tone, gait, tenor, timbre, tempo, volume, and patterns). This area is responsible for how we decode what the other is saying. Herschl’s gyrus and has a direct corollary to the densely packed cochlear nucleus, which is responsible for the processing of sounds. In this region of the brain words and sounds are decoded through the heteromodal association cortex and are given meaning through the angular gyrus, where they are then related to other words and meanings encountered in the past.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/ba-41.png" alt="BA 41" width="489" height="757" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_text-bottom"><br></p>