How Does the Brain Respond to Texture?
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The human hands and fingertips are extremely sensitive to texture or surface microstructure, which can easily perceive the finest details of a surface’s characteristics. The nerve signals sent from the sensors in the hand skin are processed by several neurons in the somatosensory cortex to produce a high-dimensional representation of texture in the brain. Image Credit: Moha El-Jaw/Shutterstock.com How does […]
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