During a tennis match, you decide how and where to hit the ball. Explain how the premotor cortex is involved in your decisions

What will be an ideal response?


As you decide to hit the ball, the premotor cortex receives information from the frontal lobes and then relays that information to the basal nuclei and cerebellum. As the hitting movement begins, the premotor cortex sends additional information to the primary motor cortex.

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