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6. What structures are involved in high level movement control?

  • Basal ganglia and cerebellum
  • Neocortex and basal ganglia
  • Neocortex and cerebellum
  • Association cortex and basal ganglia

7. What lesions is neglect associated with?

  • Right superior parietal lobe
  • Left inferior parietal lobe
  • Right inferior parietal lobe
  • Left superior parietal lobe

8. What is the prefrontal cortex not involved in?

  • Generation of mental body image
  • Decision making
  • Abstract thought
  • Initiation of voluntary reactions

9. What neurons does execution at the low level activate?

  • Motor and interneurons
  • Mirror and motor
  • Sensory and motor
  • Sensorimotor and interneurons

10. What structures and involved in the low level of movement control?

  • Brain stem and spinal cord
  • Neocortex and basal ganglia
  • Cerebellum and brain stem
  • Spinal cord and cerebellum

11. What does a lesion to left hemisphere posterior parietal cortex lead to?

  • Unable to reason abstractly or decision make logically
  • Inability to initiate movements or produce them
  • Problems with coordinated movement in arms, hands and fingers
  • Abnormalities of body image and spatial relations

12. What are voluntary movements?

  • Goal-directed
  • Involuntary
  • Rapid
  • Innate

13. Which structures are part of the 'go' in the ready, set, go paradigm?

  • Supplementary motor areas and basal ganglia
  • Motor cortex and basal ganglia
  • Prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex
  • Supplementary motor areas and premotor areas

14. In Chen et al, what did neurons in the SMA only respond to?

  • Pulling response then a pushing response
  • Neither pull or push response
  • Pushing response then a pulling response
  • Both pull and push response at the same time

15. What do mirror neurons play a role in?

  • Coordinating movements
  • Inhibiting movements
  • Imitating movements
  • Initiating movements

16. What is the highest level of motor control?

  • Prefrontal cortex
  • Posterior parietal cortex
  • Prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex
  • Prefrontal and posterior frontal cortex

17. What is a prolonged stimulation in the primary motor cortex?

  • Simple series of atypical movements towards a target position
  • Complex series of typical movements towards a target position
  • Complex series of atypical movements towards a target position
  • Simple series of typical movements towards a target position

18. What are reflexes?

  • Involuntary
  • Learned
  • Slow
  • Goal-directed

19. It has been found that paralysed patients could potentially move limbs through...

  • Brain activity
  • Someone helping them
  • Limb treatment
  • Electrical stimulation

20. What is the motor system not useful for?

  • Cognitive control
  • Movement
  • Balance
  • Communication