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  2. Somatosensory system - Wikipedia

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    The somatosensory system, or somatic sensory system is a subset of the sensory nervous system. It has two subdivisions, one for the detection of mechanosensory information related to touch, and the other for the nociception detection of pain and temperature. [ 1 ]

  3. Primary somatosensory cortex - Wikipedia

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    In neuroanatomy, the primary somatosensory cortex is located in the postcentral gyrus of the brain's parietal lobe, and is part of the somatosensory system. It was initially defined from surface stimulation studies of Wilder Penfield , and parallel surface potential studies of Bard, Woolsey, and Marshall.

  4. Category:Somatosensory system - Wikipedia

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    The somatic sensory system, or somatosensory system, detects and relays information about the sense of touch as well as pain and temperature to the brain. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

  5. Primary sensory areas - Wikipedia

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    Olfaction is the only sensory system that is not routed through the thalamus. Vision: The visual area known as V1, striate cortex, or (primary visual cortex, Brodmann area 17) is located on the calcarine sulcus deep within the inside folds of the occipital lobe.

  6. Sensory nervous system - Wikipedia

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    The visual system and the somatosensory system are active even during resting state fMRI Activation and response in the sensory nervous system. The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information.

  7. Tactile discrimination - Wikipedia

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    The somatosensory system is the nervous system pathway that is responsible for this essential survival ability used in adaptation. [1] There are various types of tactile discrimination. One of the most well known and most researched is two-point discrimination , the ability to differentiate between two different tactile stimuli which are ...

  8. Barrel cortex - Wikipedia

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    These dark-staining regions are a major target for somatosensory inputs from the thalamus, and each barrel corresponds to a region of the body. Due to this distinctive cellular structure, organisation, and functional significance, the barrel cortex is a useful tool to understand cortical processing and has played an important role in ...

  9. Sensory memory - Wikipedia

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    During every moment of an organism's life, sensory information is being taken in by sensory receptors and processed by the nervous system. Sensory information is stored in sensory memory just long enough to be transferred to short-term memory. [1] Humans have five traditional senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch.