Orofacial Movements Involve Parallel Corticobulbar Projections from Motor Cortex to Trigeminal Premotor Nuclei (Neuron)

How are orofacial behaviors formed from motor actions? Mercer Lindsay et al. delimit the control of forelimb, jaw, nose, and vibrissa movements. Neighboring neurons in motor cortex are shown to form projections that coordinate these movements via trigeminal premotor neurons.