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There are three major areas that are responsible for producing the fine motor movements in the human, the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum. Our understanding of localization in the motor system is based on studies following lesions at various levels of the neuroaxis.
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Jacobson, S., Marcus, E.M., Pugsley, S. (2018). Motor System, Movement, and Motor Pathways. In: Neuroanatomy for the Neuroscientist. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60187-8_11
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