the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
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somatosensory system::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
| Type of | interoception |
| Has types | feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, touch perception, skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation |
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This is an aspect of the sense of proprioception, part of the somatosensory system.
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Somatosensory Area 1, or S1, is for touch and proprioception in the somatosensory system.
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The somatosensory system feeds the Brodmann Areas 3, 1 and 2 of the primary somatosensory cortex.
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How does the somatosensory system process tactile information?
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These are largely detected by the somatosensory system.
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These conclusions lead to the idea of a sensory map, called the homunculus, in the somatosensory system.
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These effects of facial skin stretch indicate the involvement of the somatosensory system in the neural processing of speech sounds.
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In the periphery, the somatosensory system detects various stimuli by sensory receptors, e.g. by mechanoreceptors for tactile sensation and nociceptors for pain sensation.
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The event processing of the operating system must respond to touches rather than clicks of a keyboard or mouse, which allows integrated hand-eye operation, a natural part of the somatosensory system.
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