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The postcentral gyrus is not from a histological standpoint homogeneous. Four subtypes may be distinguished.
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Jacobson, S., Marcus, E.M. (2011). Somatosensory Functions and the Parietal Lobe. In: Neuroanatomy for the Neuroscientist. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9653-4_14
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