If You Wanted to Reach with Your Right Hand to Grab

question 98

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to reach with your right hand to grab a pen,where would that message originate in your nervous system?

• A) in the left somatosensory cortex
• B) in the ascending pathway of the spinal cord
• C) in the right motor cortex
• D) in the left motor cortex

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