Somatosensory cortex
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A note for Lesson no. 1, "You Have One Brain (Not Three)," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 18 is:
Your brain has four clusters of neurons [...] collectively called the primary somatosensory cortex. In a rat brain, however, the primary somatosensory cortex is just a single region that performs the same tasks.
For more information, see these references.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ↑ Gardner, Esther P. and Kenneth O. Johnson. 2013. "The Somatosensory System: Receptors and Central Pathways" In Principles of Neural Science, edited by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell, Steven A. Siegelbaum, and A.J. Hudspeth, 475–497. New York: McGraw Hill Medical.
- ↑ Gardner, Esther P. and Kenneth O. Johnson. 2013. "Touch." In Principles of Neural Science, edited by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell, Steven A. Siegelbaum, and A.J. Hudspeth, 498–529. New York: McGraw Hill Medical.
- ↑ Kaas, J. H. 2012. “Somatosensory System.” In The Human Nervous System, third edition, edited by J. K. Mai and G. Paximos, 1074–1109. New York: Elsevier.
- ↑ Figure 4 in Goldring, AB, and LA Krubitzer. 2017. "Evolution of Parietal Cortex in Mammals: From Manipulation to Tool Use." In Evolution of Nervous Systems, second edition, volume 3, edited by Jon H. Kaas, 259–286. New York: Elsevier.