The portion of the central nervous system that is at the highest level of control and provides for the creation of voluntary movement as aggregate muscle action but not as specific muscle activity is the:

A. brain stem.
B. cerebellum.
C. cerebral cortex.
D. spinal cord.


C. cerebral cortex.

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