Movement Control 1

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What is the motor system not useful for?
Cognitive control
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What are voluntary movements?
Goal-directed
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What are reflexes?
Involuntary
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What movements do rhythmic motor patterns involve?
Voluntary and reflexive
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What structures are involved in high level movement control?
Neocortex and basal ganglia
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What are tactical decisions based on?
The memory of sensory information from past experiences
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What neurons does execution at the low level activate?
Motor and interneurons
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What structures are involved in the middle level of movement control?
Motor cortex and cerebellum
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What structures and involved in the low level of movement control?
Brain stem and spinal cord
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Which movement activates many brain areas?
Conscious
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What is the highest level of motor control?
Prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex
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What is the posterior parietal cortex not involved in?
Evaluation of external world
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What is the prefrontal cortex not involved in?
Generation of mental body image
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What lesions is neglect associated with?
Right inferior parietal lobe
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What does a lesion to the right hemisphere posterior parietal cortex lead to?
Abnormalities of body image and spatial relations
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What does a lesion to left hemisphere posterior parietal cortex lead to?
Inability to initiate movements or produce them
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In Chen et al, what did neurons in the SMA only respond to?
Pulling response then a pushing response
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What do mirror neurons play a role in?
Imitating movements
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What is a prolonged stimulation in the primary motor cortex?
Complex series of typical movements towards a target position
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It has been found that paralysed patients could potentially move limbs through...
Brain activity
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