The precentral gyrus plays a role in controlling voluntary movement by sending motor commands to muscles. The postcentral gyrus is responsible for processing sensory input from the body, including ...

Functional MRI data were obtained from two highly sampled participants (64.0 runs, 244.0 minutes per individual) during the blocked performance of 25 movements and a new event-associated task with ...

Note the bright signal in the precentral gyrus in the right hemisphere, denoting an acute infarct. This very focal lesion resulted in weakness of the left index finger. In this case an embolus ...