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Electrophysiological, anatomical and immunocytochemical evidence for serial processing in the macaque somatosensory system is reviewed. The results from these studies are then compared with similar or dissimilar results obtained in other animal species. It is argued that the bulk of the current evidence strongly supports the view that the input supplying the major somatic drive to the second somatosensory area is from postcentral somatosensory cortex.
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Pons, T.P. (1996). Serial processing in the somatosensory system of macaques. In: Franzén, O., Johansson, R., Terenius, L. (eds) Somesthesis and the Neurobiology of the Somatosensory Cortex. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9016-8_17
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