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Mapping the Body in the Brain: The Somatosensory Cortex
Penfield discovered the somatosensory cortex, which refers to sensations from different parts of the body/nThe somatosensory cortex has neurons that respond to touch on specific parts of the body/nCells in the somatosensory cortex representing neighboring territories on the body are found adjacent to each other in the brain