somatosensory
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of somatosensory
Example Sentences
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They reflect real activity in your brain's touch-processing region, known as the somatosensory cortex.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
In the somatosensory cortex, the entire body is laid out in an orderly way.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
When the rat’s e-skin was touched, a pulse was transmitted by a wire to the rat’s brain – specifically, an area called the somatosensory cortex, which is responsible for processing physical sensations.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2023
The skin was connected through a wire to the rat’s somatosensory cortex — the part of the brain responsible for processing physical sensations.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2023
The tamping iron missed a number of key areas on either side of the brain that control important functions, including Broca's and Wernicke's areas, plus the motor strip and the somatosensory strip.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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