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| Discriminates between intensities and qualities of incoming sensory information |
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| Sensory Association Cortex |
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| Performs more complex analysis of incoming sensation |
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| Controls behavior, interprets sensation, processes emotions and memories |
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| Organizes and plans movements |
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| Projects to motor neurons in cord to produce movement |
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Primary Sensory Area:
Somatosensory (3,1,2) |
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| discriminates shape, texture, or size of objects |
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Primary Sensory Area:
Auditory (41) |
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| conscious discrimination of loudness and pitch of sounds |
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Primary Sensory Area:
Visual (17) |
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| distinguish intensity of light, shape, size, location of objects |
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Primary Sensory Area:
Vestibular (40) |
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| discriminates among head positions and head movement |
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Sensory Association Area:
Somatosensory (5,7) |
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| stereognosis and memory of the tactile and spatial environment |
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Sensory Association Area:
Visual (18-21) |
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| analysis of motion, color; control of visual fixation |
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Sensory Association Area:
Auditory (22,42) |
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| control of voluntary movement (this is a simplification) |
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Motor Planning Area:
Supplementary motor area |
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Definition
initiation of movement
orientation of head and eyes
planning bimanual and sequential movements
"set activity" |
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Motor Planning Area:
Premotor cortex (6) |
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anticipatory postural adjustments ("postural sets")
>>by control of trunk & girdle mm; NOT feedback |
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Motor Planning Area:
Broca's (44) |
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| motor programming and grammatical aspects of speech (usually L hemisphere) |
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Motor Planning Area:
Broca's analogue in nondominant cortex (44) |
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| planning nonverbal communication |
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Association Cortex:
Prefrontal |
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goal-oriented behavior (motivation)
planning how to accomplish the goal (choosing action)
monitoring execution of the plan
short term motor memory (therefore in learning) |
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Association Cortex:
Parietotemporal |
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sensory integration
problem solving
understanding language
spatial relationships |
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Association Cortex:
Limbic |
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emotion
motivation
conversion of short term to long term memory (requires intact medial temporal lobe) |
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