WordNet
n. the cortical area that influences motor movements [syn: motor area, motor region, Rolando's area, excitable area]
Wikipedia
The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements. Classically the motor cortex is an area of the frontal lobe located in the dorsal precentral gyrus immediately anterior to the central sulcus.
Usage examples of "motor cortex".
So the temporal lobe tries one route after another, one chemical after another, carnosine, NPK, amiglycine, trying to find a shortcut, trying to get the signal through to the motor cortex to start the heart, the lungs.
Masses of irrelevant information stormed the sensory-motor cortex, smashing up through the thalamus and hypothalamus, howled triumphantly round the reverberatory pathways of the association cortex.
Penfield, extending the findings of previous researchers, also uncovered a remarkable localization of function in the motor cortex.
This involves certain parts of your motor cortex in a discrete and complicated pattern of electrochemical activity.
But the smell of roses faded right out, and the motor cortex homunculi wavered and dissipated, leaving visible several primitive robots, without a brain among them, which continued to dismantle each other.
The traitor had showed them how to injure the motor cortex in just the right place to inhibit all voluntary movement below the neck.