system, which also includes the visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and vestibular senses. In physiology touch is called the Somatosensory system,...

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...

Receptive fields have been identified for the visual system, auditory system and somatosensory system. While debate exists among neurologists as to the specific...

functions of the digestive system. The somatic nervous system includes the sensory nervous system and the somatosensory system and consists of sensory nerves...

receptor cells, G proteins, ion channels, and effector enzymes. In the somatosensory system the sensory transduction mainly involves the conversion of the mechanical...

33, 44, 45, 46, 47 Parietal lobe Cortex Primary somatosensory cortex (S1) Secondary somatosensory cortex (S2) Posterior parietal cortex Gyri Postcentral...

respective visual system (sense of vision), auditory system (sense of hearing), somatosensory system (sense of touch), olfactory system (sense of smell)...

parietal lobe of the human brain. It is the location of the primary somatosensory cortex, the main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch. Like...

differentiate information through the sense of touch. The somatosensory system is the nervous system pathway that is responsible for this essential survival...

A somatosensory disorder is an impairment of the somatosensory system. People may experience numbness, prickling or tingling sensations (paresthesias)...