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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Cortical homunculus (redirect from Sensory homunculus)
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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Trigeminal nerve (section Sensory branches)
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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Perception (redirect from Sensory perception)
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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Somatosensory system (redirect from Somatic sensory system)
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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Postcentral gyrus (redirect from Primary sensory cortex)
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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Cortical remapping (section Sensory system)
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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Cerebral cortex (section Sensory areas)
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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Neurocomputational speech processing (section Feedback control: sensory target regions, state maps, and error maps)
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 (redirect from Sensory modality)
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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Cutaneous rabbit illusion (redirect from Sensory saltation)
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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