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Damage of different parts of the sensory-motor cortex in humans affects different aspects of motor function ranging from paresis as the most common and elementary motor dysfunction to the more complex motor disturbances such as motor neglect or the apraxias. Fig. 1 shows those areas where lesions are known to cause motor deficits. As illustrated, the ‘motor deficit field’ comprises not only the frontal motor areas, but also the whole parietal cortex.
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Freund, HJ. (1996). Motor Disturbances after Cortical Lesions of the Human Brain. In: Lacquaniti, F., Viviani, P. (eds) Neural Bases of Motor Behaviour. NATO ASI Series, vol 85. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2403-6_5
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