[1] The skin overlying this region is the area stimulated when trying to elicit a palmomental reflex.

The superficial head is usually innervated by the recurrent branch of the median nerve.

[citation needed] The adductor pollicis is typically innervated by the ulnar nerve.

The ulnar nerve is exclusively responsible for the innervations of the hypothenar eminence.

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)