Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Elche, has discovered that the ...

Study: A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Image Credit: r.classen/Shutterstock.com Background The human motor cortex was initially described as a ...

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that electrical stimulation of projected finger map (PFM) in the stump skin of forearm amputees activates concurrently the corresponding finger ...

Kyle Monk / Getty Images Why Are Erogenous Zones Stimulating? Certain areas of the body, including the erogenous zones, have a higher density of touch receptors. This is why your fingertips are more ...

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Despite this mystery, Penfield’s map of the somatosensory cortex was quickly adopted as the standard, so the genitals remained underneath the feet for decades.

The somatosensory cortex devotes brain space to detecting touch for each part of the body. But the exact location of the female genital field in this map had been controversial.

Summary: The precise location within the somatosensory cortex varies from woman to woman in relation to the effects of genital stimulation. Researchers found the thickness of the genital field within ...

Above them, the somatosensory cortex; behind them, the visual cortex. Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but they do ...

Obviously this is far from ideal, which is why Nathan hadn’t just been implanted with Utah arrays that read out his motor cortex, but also arrays which connected to his somatosensory cortex.