Chapter 4 Motor functions

Question 1

Brain structures involved in motor control

Answer 1

SUBCORTICAL REGIONS:
-Cerebellum

Question 2

What are the three main divisions of cerebellum?

Answer 2

-vestibulocerebellum
-spinocerebellum
-cerebrocerebellum

Question 3

Basal ganglia

Answer 3

A complex collection of subcortical nuclei:
-caudate nucleus
-putamen
-nucleus accumbens
-globus pallidus
-substantia nigra
-subthalamic nucleus

Question 4

What are the four parallel loops between the basal ganglia, thalamus, and cortex

Answer 4

• A limbic (emotional)
  -an associative (cognitive)
  -a sensory
  -a motor

Question 5

Theories of the motor functions provided by basal ganglia

Question 6

Functions of the Cortical Regions

Answer 6

• Major role is the planning and guiding of skilled movements and those that require linking sensory inputs with motor inputs

-Supports a range of motor abilities:
-picking an object
-using a tool
-producing a gesture in response of verbal command
-moving the eyes to explore the image of a face
-controlling the body as we move around the environment

Question 7

Primary motor cortex

Question 8

Supplementary motor cortex and Premotor areas

Question 9

coarticulation

Question 11

Premotor regions

Answer 11

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Question 12

What is the difference between premotor cortex and primary cortex?

Question 13

What are the two distinct devisions of the premotor cortex?

Question 14

Mirror neurons