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The Skin is Also a Map

The Skin is Also a Map | Science News | Scoop.it

We did not randomly feel the world, but that our brain created a special map that represented our skin surface. This map of the skin surface is in the same place in everyone’s brain, and is called the primary sensory cortex (or somatosensory cortex, see below).


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Touching a nerve: How every hair in skin feels touch and how it all gets to the brain

Touching a nerve: How every hair in skin feels touch and how it all gets to the brain | Science News | Scoop.it
Neuroscientists have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new findings open new doors for understanding how the brain collects and processes information from hairy skin.
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