Secondary Motor Cortex & Its Measures

Supplementary Motor Area

sequencing, timing, and proper initiation of voluntary movements, motor PLANNING

Premotor Area

more in external cue readiness, such as the interval between the cue and starting the movement

Cingulate Motor Area

emotional or motivational force for movement like when a reward is involved, injury causes lack of spontaneous motor activity and reduced speech output

Perseveration

the inability to stop behaviors once they have started

Motor Impersistence

failure to continue motor behavior after initiated

Luria 3 Step

pattern done with 1 hand on a table (fist, edge, palm)

Go No Go

either responding or inhibiting when faced with a stimulus, can also indicate orbitofrontal cortex function like disinhibition