KINE 3020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Motor System, Muscle Tone, Nystagmus
20 Oct 2013
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It has been suggested that movement control is achieved through cooperative effort of many brain structures that are organized both hierarchically and in parallel. Hierarchical processing in conjunction with parallel distributed processing (pdp) occurs in the perception, action, and cognitive systems of movement control. In perception system hierarchical processing means that higher brain centers integrate inputs from many sense and interpret incoming sensory information. On action side- higher levels of brain function form motor plans and strategies for action. Higher levels select the specific response to accomplish task. Lower levels would carry out the detailed monitoring and regulation of response execution. Many structures of the brain (eg. spinal cord, brainstem, cerebellum, and association cortex) have both perception and action components. In pdp the same signal is processed simultaneously among many different brain structures but for different purposes. Multiple processing levels including the spinal cord, the brainstem (medulla, pons, midbrain), and diencephalon (thalamus and hypothalamus), the cerebellum, and.
