Motor Maps

Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California

One principle of brain organization is the topographic mapping of information. Especially in sensory and motor cortices, adjacent regions of the brain tend to represent information from adjacent parts of ...

Motor information is organized according to anatomical divisions in the primary motor cortex, creating a topographical map in the brain.

Located in the precentral gyrus, cortical representations of the body are organized into a motor homunculus?"little man"?and are arranged in an inverted manner, such that the areas that control the toes a...