PSYC 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motor Learning, Motor Unit, Knitting
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8. 1 in the context of the sensorimotor system, explain what hierarchically organized means: higher levels of the hierarchy are only responsible for general goals rather than specific plans of action. This allows those higher levels to have freedom to perform more complex functions. Sensorimotor system is a parallel hierarchical system: signals flow between levels over multiple paths, enables association cortex to exert control over the lower levels in more than one way. Functional segregation: each level of the hierarchy tends to be composed of different units - each performs a different function. **sensorimotor system is parallel, functionally segregated, hierarchical system. 8. 3 explain the important role of sensory input for motor output. 8. 4 describe and/or draw the general model of sensorimotor function. 8. 6 explain the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal association cortex in sensorimotor function and describe the response properties of neurons in this region of cortex.
