Brain Areas Linked to Tact­ile Sense and Meta­cog­nit­ive Abil­ity (IMAGE)

University of Helsinki

Brain Areas Linked to Tact­ile Sense and Meta­cog­nit­ive Abil­ity

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In the study, individual neural pathways between the primary somatosensory cortex (yellow dots) and the prefrontal cortex were first determined and then magnetic stimulation was given to the brain areas anatomically connected to somatosensory cortex (red and blue dots).

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Juha Gogulski

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