Sensory and somatic-motor pathways 1. Analyze the figures below
and use the term bank, and describe the pathway by which: a.
somatosensory stimuli is transmitted to the cerebral cortex b. a
motor command is transmitted from the cerebral cortex to skeletal
muscle. Use
Term bank: tract column gray matter white matter spinal nerve sensory neuron motor neuron spinal cord medulla oblongata. pyramids cerebellum ascending descending afferent efferent association fibers projection fibers commissural fibers thalamus cerebral cortex basal nuclei decussation contralateral ipsilateral posterior column spinothalamic tract corticospinal tracts motor association area primary motor cortex somatosensory association area. primary somatosensory cortex precentral gyrus postcentral gyrus central sulcus