• 18 parts
  • Checked October 2026

Anterior Brain Labeled, With Back and Top Views

Tap a ring to name a part of the whole brain, from the front, from behind and from above.

Anterior Brain Labeled, With Back and Top Views

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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Longitudinal fissure
  2. Right cerebral hemisphere
  3. Left cerebral hemisphere
  4. Frontal lobe
  5. Temporal lobe
  6. Pons
  7. Medulla oblongata
  8. Parietal lobe
  9. Occipital lobe
  10. Cerebellar hemisphere
  11. Vermis
  12. Spinal cord
  13. Gyrus (a fold)
  14. Sulcus (a groove)
  15. Central sulcus
  16. Precentral gyrus
  17. Postcentral gyrus
  18. Parieto-occipital sulcus

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

Next step Next: the brain from the side and cut down the middle

All 18 parts on the diagram

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Front 7

  1. Longitudinal fissure The deep groove between the two cerebral hemispheres.
  2. Right cerebral hemisphere The right half of the cerebrum. From the front it is on the left of the picture.
  3. Left cerebral hemisphere The left half of the cerebrum. From the front it is on the right of the picture.
  4. Frontal lobe The lobe at the front of each hemisphere. It is the largest of the lobes.
  5. Temporal lobe The lobe at the side, below the lateral sulcus.
  6. Pons The bulging middle part of the brainstem, above the medulla.
  7. Medulla oblongata The lowest part of the brainstem. It continues down as the spinal cord.

Behind 7

  1. Parietal lobe The lobe behind the central sulcus, in front of the occipital lobe.
  2. Occipital lobe The lobe at the back of each hemisphere. It holds the primary visual cortex.
  3. Cerebellar hemisphere One of the two large halves of the cerebellum.
  4. Vermis The narrow middle strip that joins the two cerebellar hemispheres.
  5. Spinal cord The cord of nervous tissue that continues down from the medulla oblongata.
  6. Gyrus (a fold) A ridge on the folded surface of the cortex. The plural is gyri.
  7. Sulcus (a groove) A groove between two gyri. The plural is sulci.

Above 4

  1. Central sulcus The groove between the frontal and parietal lobes.
  2. Precentral gyrus The fold just ahead of the central sulcus. It holds the primary motor cortex.
  3. Postcentral gyrus The fold just behind the central sulcus. It holds the primary somatosensory cortex.
  4. Parieto-occipital sulcus A deep groove between the parietal and occipital lobes. Most of it lies on the inner face of the hemisphere.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-10-01 in at least two of these. (1) Wikipedia, English edition, Cerebrum, Cerebral hemisphere, Longitudinal fissure, Lobes of the brain, Gyrus, Sulcus (neuroanatomy), Central sulcus, Precentral gyrus, Postcentral gyrus, Parieto-occipital sulcus, Cerebellum and Spinal cord, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrum. (2) Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body (1918), The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon and The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon, https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/anatomy-of-the-human-body/4c-the-fore-brain-or-prosencephalon/. (3) Neuroscience Online, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Section 2, Chapter 1, https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter01.html. (4) TeachMeAnatomy, The Cerebrum, https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/structures/cerebrum/. Detail lines are in our own words. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry; nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

Three drawings of one whole brain. The anterior view has the left and right side of the brain labeled, either side of the longitudinal fissure. The back view shows the occipital lobes and cerebellum; the top view shows the central sulcus.

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Front, then behind, then above

From the front, number 1 is the longitudinal fissure, 2 and 3 are the right and left cerebral hemispheres, 4 and 5 the frontal and temporal lobes, and 6 and 7 the pons and medulla oblongata. From behind, 8 and 9 are the parietal and occipital lobes, 10 and 11 a cerebellar hemisphere and the vermis, 12 the spinal cord, and 13 and 14 one gyrus and one sulcus. From above, 15 is the central sulcus, 16 and 17 the precentral and postcentral gyri, and 18 the parieto-occipital sulcus.

  • Seen from the front, the brain faces you, so its right hemisphere is on your left. Seen from behind, left is left.
  • A gyrus is a fold and a sulcus is the groove beside it. A large, deep groove is often called a fissure.

Questions and answers

Which side is the left hemisphere on a brain labeled from the front?

On the right of the picture. An anterior view looks at the brain face to face, so its left and right are swapped, as with a person facing you. From behind and from above, left is on the left.

What can you see on the back of the brain?

The two occipital lobes low down beside the midline, with the parietal lobes above them. Below is the cerebellum, with its two hemispheres and the narrow vermis between them, and under that the spinal cord.

What separates the two brain hemispheres?

The longitudinal fissure, a deep groove that runs from front to back along the midline. It shows in all three views. Deep inside it the hemispheres are joined by the corpus callosum.

Where is the central sulcus?

On the top and side of each hemisphere, between the frontal and parietal lobes. The precentral gyrus lies just in front of it and the postcentral gyrus just behind it.

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