PSYC 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hemiparesis, Paresis, Computer Mouse
2 May 2017
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How do we produce voluntary movement: motor plan- an abstract representation of an intended movement, specify a goal for the action, create the plan, initiate and execute movement (at central focus, compare executed movement with the plan on-line. M1, s1, ppc these brain parts have to talk to each other. It is important for the brain to know what its doing efference copy. Motor systems are organized in 3 levels and in 3 levels and in parallel. Involved in the initiation and execution of movement: specify how actions. In premotor cortext is involved with planning: skilled voluntary movement, doesn"t code for movement force the way m1 does. Visuomoor integration in complex situation: correspondence between vision and action is not direct, mapping between stimulus and response must be learned and calibrated, ex.
