• Sensory maps are areas of the brain which responds to sensory stimulation, and are spatially organized according to some feature of the sensory stimulation...
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  • Sensory maps and brain development is a concept in neuroethology that links the development of the brain over an animal’s lifetime with the fact that there...
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    based on a neurological "map" of the areas and portions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor functions, and/or sensory functions, for different...
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  • In robotics one often combines external sensory input and motor kinematics. A Sensory Motor-Map(SMM) is a map between the perception system of the robot...
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    a single primary sensory map of the body, when there are multiple primary maps. At least four separate, anatomically distinct sensory homunculi have been...
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  • In neuroanatomy, topographic map is the ordered projection of a sensory surface (like the retina or the skin) or an effector system (like the musculature)...
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    receiving') is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information...
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  • and network dynamics. STDP develops early in life, helping to refine sensory maps and establish functional connectivity during critical periods. The process...
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    The somatosensory system, or somatic sensory system is a subset of the sensory nervous system. The main functions of the somatosensory system are the...
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    main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch. Like other sensory areas, there is a map of sensory space in this location, called the sensory homunculus...
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    example for how acoustic properties of sounds can be converted into a sensory map of behaviorally relevant features of sounds. Neuroethology is an integrative...
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  • Sensory processing is the process that organizes and distinguishes sensation (sensory information) from one's own body and the environment, thus making...
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    to map the cortical maps of the human brain. When performing brain surgeries on conscious patients, Penfield would touch either a patient's sensory or...
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    limited by the sensory channels used to perceive it. He described the "map" of reality as an imperfect representation: We say the map is different from...
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    neuroscience, a sensory map in the brain which has overlapping stimulus coding (e.g. location and quality) is called an orthogonal map. In philosophy,...
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    "map" of the areas and proportions of the human brain dedicated to processing sensory functions, for different parts of the body. Self-organizing maps...
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    J. Physiol. (London) 182:404-426, 1966. Mason P. Placing pain on the sensory map: Classic papers by Ed Perl and colleagues. J. Neurophysiol. 97: 1871-1873...
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  • (texture maps, color maps, contour maps, etc.). Cortical organization, especially for the sensory systems, is often described in terms of maps. For example...
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    The organization of sensory maps in the cortex reflects that of the corresponding sensing organ, in what is known as a topographic map. Neighboring points...
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  • representation (see above) of a sensory or motor state within a sensory or motor map from a punctual or local activation within the other map (see for example the...
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  • In perceptual psychology, a sensory cue is a statistic or signal that can be extracted from the sensory input by a perceiver, that indicates the state...
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    phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People with...
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    distribution of the sensory areas of the cerebral cortex in different animals. These conclusions lead to the idea of a sensory map, called the homunculus...
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  • emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors (Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon...
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  • Sensory substitution is a change of the characteristics of one sensory modality into stimuli of another sensory modality. A sensory substitution system...
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    anecdotal evidence. Komisaruk's study was the first to map the female genitals onto the sensory portion of the brain; it indicates that sensation from...
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  • Stimulus modality, also called sensory modality, is one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus. For example, the temperature modality...
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  • are associated with neural activity in the same area of the brain's sensory map that is activated by real taps to the skin. Nevertheless, the specific...
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    Mendelsohn, M; Edmondson, J; Axel, R (1996). "Visualizing an olfactory sensory map". Cell. 87 (4): 675–86. doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81387-2. PMID 8929536...
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    respond to sensory stimuli and also respond during voluntary movements. Mapping from visual cortex to claustrum includes just a single map, which includes...
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