Using chopsticks to eat a meal requires visual guidance, while swiping a metrocard at the turnstile cannot be easily corrected once initiated. How and to what extent, might you expect the neural control of these movements to differ?

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Q: for the rotational movement, do you mean that when I tilt my head to the right, the hair cells in my…

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Q: Explain how a crossed-extensor reflex exemplifies both serial and parallel processing.

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Q: What is a sensory modality?

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Q: sting a patellar reflex, what are you working on

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Q: Why did Tristan exclaim “ouch!” after he had withdrawn his hand from the hot coffee?

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Q: Define sensory localization. Why would the error distance tend to decrease with successive trials?

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Q: Examples of proprioceptors that monitor the position of joints and the state of muscular contraction…

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Q: Discuss the areas of the brain involved in voluntary control of movement.

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Q: What is referred pain, and why do we experience it in this way?

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Q: What clinical information can be gained by conducting somatic reflex tests?

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