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Somatosensory Cortex

"Somatosensory Cortex" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Area of the parietal lobe concerned with receiving sensations such as movement, pain, pressure, position, temperature, touch, and vibration. It lies posterior to the central sulcus.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Somatosensory Cortex" by people in this website by year, and whether "Somatosensory Cortex" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 107 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2015
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