superior temporal gyrus

Component of the temporal lobe, lateral aspect. The rostral boundary is the rostral extent of the ssuperior temporal sulcus. The caudal boundary is the cauday portion of the superior temporal gyrus (posterior to becoming continuous with the supramarginal gyrus). The medial boundary is the lateral fissure (and when present the supramarginal gyrus), and the lateral boundary is the superior temporal suclus (Christine Fennema-Notestine). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the superior temporal gyrus is

Component of the temporal lobe, lateral aspect. The rostral boundary is the rostral extent of the ssuperior temporal sulcus. The caudal boundary is the cauday portion of the superior temporal gyrus (posterior to becoming continuous with the supramarginal gyrus). The medial boundary is the lateral fissure (and when present the supramarginal gyrus), and the lateral boundary is the superior temporal suclus (Christine Fennema-Notestine). The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.

Where the superior temporal gyrus is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the superior temporal gyrus connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of temporal lobe.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the superior temporal gyrus. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as gyrus temporalis superior. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002769, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the superior temporal gyrus?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the superior temporal gyrus connect to?

Part of: temporal lobe.

Is the superior temporal gyrus the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.