Midterm 1: Unit 1-3 Flashcards
What is motor control?
Movement through activation and coordination of muscles/limbs through reflective, reactive and voluntary mechanisms (afferent & efferent control).
What are Afferent Neurons?
Provides CNS with information from periphery.
What are Efferent Neurons?
Control muscle contraction.
What are Interneurons?
Integrates multiple inputs and transmits processed signals.
Frontal Lobe Functions
Movement, planning and reasoning.
Parietal Lobe Functions
Somatic sensation and spatial reasoning.
Temporal Lobe Functions
Hearing, smell, taste, visual perception and speech.
Occipital Lobe Functions
Vision.
What is the functions of the Somatic NS?
Limb/muscle position and external environment.
What is the function of the Autonomic NS?
Controls viscera, smooth muscle, and glands.
What is a synapse?
The passing of information through electrochemical mechanisms.
What can occur in Post Synaptic Potentials?
They can depolarize (EPSP) or hyperpolarize (IPSP).
What is Spatial Summation?
The input from many presynaptic neurons.
What is Temporal Summation?
The input from one presynaptic neuron in quick succession.
What are the factors that effect the response of motor neurons?
They depend on size, velocity conduction and the number of muscle fibers it innervates.
What is a Motor Unit (MU)?
A muscle neuron and all the extrafusal muscle fibers it innervates (Innervation Ratio).
What is MU Recruitment?
Size principle: Smaller MU’s get recruited before larger ones.
What is the Motor Neuron Pool?
All individual MU’s innervating a single muscle, clustered in the spinal cord (1-4 Spinal Segments).
What are extrafusal fibers?
Responsible for movement, innervated by alpha motor neurons.
What are intrafusal fibers?
Specialized for proprioception, detecting changes in muscle length and are innervated by gamma motor neurons.
How is Human Movement categorized?
Reflexes, Stereotyped Movements, and Goal Directed Behaviours.
What is Skilled Performance?
The learnt ability for specific results by maximizing the certainty of the goal and minimizing physical/mental energy cost and time used.
Components of Skilled Performance
Training/Practice, Efficiency/ Economy Performance and Flexibility.
What are the Critical Elements of Skill?
Perpetual, Cognitive and Motor.
How can we Classify Skill?
Environmental Predictability, Movement Initiation, Task Organization and Primary Muscles.
What is the Information Processing Model
Input: signals from the environment.
Output: action on the environment.