motor area
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- noun
- /ˈmoʊtər ˈɛəriə/
- Specialized
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área motora
- Young children with disabilities generally exhibit deficits in language, social-emotional, cognitive, and motor areas.
- supplementary motor area
- primary motor area
If you're a pianist, it's it's both hands that will change the size and representation of those motor areas that you are working.
- If you're a pianist, it's it's both hands that will change the size and representation of those motor areas that you are working.
Examples
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In music performance, the prefrontal cortex communicates with the motor areas of the brain responsible for the execution of learned motor skills.
Academic text (2014) -
Research suggests that melodic generation activates the supplementary motor area, primary motor cortex, and frontal operculum bilaterally.
Academic text (2015) -
And it does that by going to the premotor and motor areas of the cortex.
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When they do this, areas of the supplementary motor area, which is a part of the brain that helps control movement, become activated (Owen et al., 2008).
Academic text (2010) -
The cerebrum has sensory areas, association areas, and motor areas.
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In music performance, the prefrontal cortex communicates with the motor areas of the brain responsible for the execution of learned motor skills.
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In this study, the investigators tested walking speed and the function of the motor area of the brain in twenty people immediately after a concussion.
Synonyms
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5.5
The part of the brain that plans and controls movements you make on purpose
The part of the brain that controls body movement you choose to make
A part of the brain that controls movements you choose to make
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'motor' (relating to movement or muscles) + 'area' (a region) yields a region responsible for movement control. This noun-noun combination follows a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern of labeling functional bodily regions, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Motor area may come from the word motor meaning 'mover' and area meaning a part of a place. This gives a clear image: the motor area is the part of the brain that 'makes the body move', so the name means the brain region that controls movements you choose to make.