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SUBMITTER: Germann J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7132904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Germann Jürgen J Chakravarty M Mallar MM Collins D Louis DL Petrides Michael M
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20200301 3
Pioneering research established the concept of somatotopic organization of the primary motor and somatosensory cortex along the central sulcus as depicted in the widely known schematic illustration (the "homunculus") by Penfield and colleagues. With the exception of the hand, however, a precise relationship between morphological features of the central sulcus and the representation of various parts of the body has not been addressed. To investigate whether such relations between anatomical featu ...[more]