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Chapter 7 - Somatosensory and Somatic Motor Systems

from Section 1 - Basic and Computational Neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

By
Maria Kaltchenko  and
Farhana Akter
Edited by
Farhana Akter ,
Nigel Emptage ,
Florian Engert  and
Mitchel S. Berger
Farhana Akter
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Nigel Emptage
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Florian Engert
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Mitchel S. Berger
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Summary

The somatosensory system is responsible for sensation such as touch. It is a subset of the sensory nervous system that represents the visual, olfactory, auditory, and gustatory pathways discussed in Chapter 6. There are five types of somatosensory receptors: mechanoreceptors, proprioceptors, pain receptors, thermoreceptors, and chemoreceptors.

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Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons , pp. 121 - 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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