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-large pyramidal cells
-long axons
-allows precise control of voluntary movements |
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-controls learned, repetitious, or patterned motor skills
-simultaneous/sequential actions
-planning of movements that depend on sensory feedback |
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-anterior to premotor area
-present in ONE hemisphere usually left
-directs muscles of tongue
-active as one prepares to speak |
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-anterior to the premotor cortex and superior to Broca's area
-controls vonluntary eye movements |
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| *somatosensory association cortex |
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-posterior to primary somatosensory cortex
-integrates sensory input from primary
-determines size, texture, and relationships of part of objects felt |
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| *primary somatosensory cortex |
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-receives sensory info from skeletal muscle, skin, joints
-capable of spatial discrimination-id of body region when stimulated |
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-primary-receives info from retinas
-assiciation area-surrounds primary
-uses past visual experiences to interpret stimuli (color, form, movement)
-complex processing involves entire posterior half of hemispheres |
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-primary-interprets putch, loudness,location
-association-stores memories of sounds and permits perception of sounds |
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-medial aspect of temporal lobes
-part of primitive rhinencephalon
-region of concious awareness of odors |
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-*in the insula
-within the lateral sulcus
-between temporal and frontal lobe
-perception of taste |
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-posterior to gustatory cortex
-within insula
-conscious perception of visceral sensations (upset stomach, full bladder) |
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-posterior part of insula and adjacent pareital cortex
-responsible for conscious awareness of balance (position of head in space) |
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