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I took a few classes taught by Graziano, one of the motor researchers cited in this article. I remember he was convinced that the motor cortex does much higher
by jacobsimon 3y ago
I took a few classes taught by Graziano, one of the motor researchers cited in this article. I remember he was convinced that the motor cortex does much higher level planning and orchestration than other people believed, and that it stored entire movement templates across different areas as described here. One of the main ones was picking up something and bringing it to your mouth to eat.
- ttctciyf 3y agoI honestly would not be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of the specific content of spoken (or indeed keyboarded) utterances originates in movements of mouth and hands planned by the motor cortex. The reason being that sometimes the speed of production precludes the involvement of ‘higher’ cortical functions, which proceed at a slower pace.