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A motor system called the basal ganglia facilitates movement initiation by removing its powerful inhibition on other motor areas. It may also facilitate activity in the cerebral cortex with disinhibition and ensure sequential processing of motor signals.
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Hikosaka, O. (1989). Role of Basal Ganglia in Initiation of Voluntary Movements. In: Arbib, M.A., Amari, Si. (eds) Dynamic Interactions in Neural Networks: Models and Data. Research Notes in Neural Computing, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4536-0_9
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