Chapter 12 (Module 12.6)

Question 1

Largest right and left tracts that control the muscles below the head and neck via the motor neurons of the spinal nerves.

Answer 1

Corticospinal tracts

Question 2

Control the muscles of the head and neck via the lower motor neurons of the cranial nerves.

Answer 2

Corticonuclear tracts

Question 3

A group of neurons selected to perform a given action.

Answer 3

Motor program

Question 4

Damage to the cerebellum makes fluid , well-coordinated nearly impossible instead movements are jerky and inaccurate.

Answer 4

Cerebellar antaxia

Question 5

Damage to any component of the basal nuclei; the inability to to initiate voluntary movement making simple activities such as walking or talking difficult and the inability in inhibit inappropriate involuntary movements like blinking or throat clearing.

Answer 5

Movement disorder

Question 6

The correction of motor error by the cerebellum.

Answer 6

Motor learning