PSYC3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Supplementary Motor Area, Frontal Eye Fields, Premotor Cortex
Document Summary
Hemiplegia- damage to one side of the primary motor cortex results in a failure to voluntariy move the other side of the body. Frontal eye fields- responsible for voluntary movement of the eyes. Premotor cortex- the lateral area is important for linking action with objects in the environment- the medial area is known as the supplementary motor area and deals with well learned actions and action sequences. Supplementary motor area- deals with well learned actions particularly action sequences that do not place strong demands on monitoring the environment. Perseveration- repeating an action that has already been performed and is no longer relevant. Utilization behaviour- impulsively acting on irrelevant objects in the environment. Schema- an organised set of stored information e. g. familiar action routines. Contention scheduling- the mechanism that selects one particular schema to be enacted from a host of competing schemas.
