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The ‘creatures’ of the human cortical somatosensory system

Penfield’s description of the ‘homunculus’, a ‘grotesque creature’ with large lips and hands and small trunk and legs depicting the representation of body-parts within the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), is one of the most prominent contributions to the neurosciences. Since then, numerous studies...

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Autores principales: Saadon-Grosman, Noam, Loewenstein, Yonatan, Arzy, Shahar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32954277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa003