BS 197 (Encore) Neuroscience for Dummies with Frank Amthor
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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What's the Difference Between the Right and the Left Side of the Ring?
Each square millimeter of neo cortex is capable of processing about the same number inputs. And so if you look at a map of the skin, for example, the sensory receptors are very dense on the finger tips and dense on the lips, forehead, ad several other places in the body. So those areas of the neo cortex are very large compared to the areas of neo cortex that are devoted to chest or back of the legs. Where the sensory receptor or density is much lower.
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