The Facial nerve (VII) controls:
Vocal fold adduction
Tongue protrusion
Facial expression and taste to anterior ⅔ of tongue
Soft palate elevation
Broca’s area is located in:
Inferior frontal gyrus, typically left hemisphere
Parietal lobe
Superior temporal gyrus
Angular gyrus
The Angular gyrus plays a key role in:
Motor speech
Tongue coordination
Reading and writing
Auditory discrimination
The Recurrent laryngeal branch of the Vagus nerve innervates:
All intrinsic laryngeal muscles except the cricothyroid
Cricothyroid only
Pharyngeal constrictors
Facial muscles
The Supramarginal gyrus is associated with:
Emotional regulation
Visual perception
Limb movement
Phonological processing and repetition
The Basal ganglia regulate:
Hearing sensitivity
Language comprehension
Visual tracking
Fine motor coordination and tone
The cranial nerve primarily responsible for jaw movement is:
XII (Hypoglossal)
V (Trigeminal)
X (Vagus)
VII (Facial)
The right hemisphere is most involved in:
Pragmatics, prosody, and holistic processing
Syntax and morphology
Word retrieval
Phoneme discrimination
The Arcuate fasciculus connects:
Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas
Frontal and occipital lobes
Motor and sensory cortices
Cerebellum and brainstem
Lesions to the Basal ganglia may cause:
Hyperkinetic or hypokinetic dysarthria
Flaccid dysarthria
Apraxia of speech
Ataxic dysarthria
Damage to the Facial nerve (VII) often results in:
Impaired tongue protrusion
Hypernasality
Facial asymmetry and poor labial closure
Reduced jaw strength
Cranial nerve X (Vagus) innervates muscles for:
Tongue retraction
Laryngeal movement and velar closure
Chewing
Lip protrusion
The Accessory nerve (XI) contributes to:
Laryngeal closure
Taste perception
Head and shoulder movement via trapezius and SCM
Palatal retraction
Cranial nerve IX (Glossopharyngeal) mediates:
Tongue tip movement
Taste posterior ⅓ of tongue and pharyngeal elevation
Lip rounding
Jaw closing
Cerebellar damage often results in:
Ataxic dysarthria
Aphasia
Flaccid paralysis
Spastic dysarthria
The Corticobulbar tract carries motor commands:
From cerebellum to pons
From cochlea to brainstem
From brainstem to spinal cord
From the cortex to cranial nerve nuclei in the brainstem
The Pyramidal (direct) motor pathway is responsible for:
Emotional prosody
Reflexive motor patterns
Balance and posture
Voluntary, precise motor control of speech muscles
Damage to the Arcuate fasciculus typically causes:
Global aphasia
Anomic aphasia
Conduction aphasia
Transcortical motor aphasia
A lesion to cranial nerve VIII (Vestibulocochlear) may cause:
Hearing loss and balance difficulties
Hypernasal speech
Tongue deviation
Dysarthria
Wernicke’s area is primarily responsible for:
Visual word recognition
Motor planning for speech
Motor execution
Auditory comprehension of language
The Medulla oblongata houses nuclei for:
Cranial nerves I–IV
Cranial nerves V–VIII
Cranial nerves IX, X, XI, XII
Visual pathways only
Heschl’s gyrus corresponds to the:
Motor strip
Visual association area
Corpus callosum
Primary auditory cortex
The Pons contains nuclei for which cranial nerves?
IX, X, XI
IV, V, VI
I, II, III
V, VI, VII, VIII
Damage to the left inferior frontal lobe usually results in:
Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia
Conduction aphasia
Global aphasia
Damage to cranial nerve XII results in tongue deviation:
Away from the lesion
No deviation
Straight forward
Toward the weaker side
The Internal capsule carries:
Cranial nerve nuclei
Auditory fibers from cochlea
Motor and sensory tracts between cortex and brainstem
Reflex centers
The Thalamus functions primarily as:
The initiator of motor programs
The center of memory storage
A relay station for sensory information to the cortex
The generator of vocal fold vibration
The Cerebellum is critical for:
Visual scanning
Speech comprehension
Emotional control
Balance and motor coordination
Lesion to Broca’s area results in:
Nonfluent, effortful speech with relatively good comprehensi
Fluent speech with paraphasias
Global aphasia
Pure word deafness