The Skin is Also a Map | Science News | Scoop.it
From sciencedefined.wordpress.com - February 6, 2012 3:25 PM

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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