review class Flashcards
secondary somatosensory cortex
confirmed which movement have already taken place and decide which movements should follow
pre-frontal cortex
decisions making center when doing complex movements
the function of the direct pathway
to facilitate movement (increase movement)
what does the Nigra in the direct pathways
after the nigra is excited by glutamate the nigra send gaba back to the subthalamic nuclei to stop exciting the nigra (it has had enough so now it wants to stop)
how to pick up cup
- primary visual cortex
2.2 stream hypothesis (dorsal and ventral) - prefrontal cortex (decision movement)
- premotor (before the movement)
- primary motor
- alpha motor neurons (got there by the corticospinal tract)
subcortical- BG-cerebellum
mirror neurons
activate when your sensory neurons “sense something” that someone else is doing
motor set neurons
“hey we are about to do a movement”
- fire just prior to doing action
finger extension experiment
- all mechanoreceptors contribute to proprioception(some understanding for where your joints are in space)
- as joint position increased better correct identification was received
- muscle-tendon unit does not play as much of a role when the finger is flexed (unloaded)