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Postcentral gyrus, or the parietal lobe

[Edit: The postcentral gyrus is posterior to the central sulcus, not anterior. The primary motor cortex is located directly anterior to the central sulcus.]

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Hmm. i would belive it is sylvian fissure or the lateral sulcus and then inferior to that you have the temporal lobe. But you also have the primary aiditory area right beside the the inferior end of the central sulcus.

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The sensory cortex, or what is also known as the sensory strip.

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Frontal lobe

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The motor cortex sits just posterior of the central fissure in the frontal lobes whereas the somatosensory cortex sits next to the central fissure in the parietal lobes of the cerebral cortex?

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