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Somesthetic Effects of Damage to the Central Nervous System

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Somatosensory System

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((SENSORY,volume 2))

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Studying the alterations of behavior resulting from central nervous system lesions as a means of uncovering mechanisms of sensation has a long history. The method originated from the “experiments of Nature” provided by patients with local injury or disease. Neurologists made the basic behavioral observations which established the broad functional divisions of the somatic inflow, and it was they who formulated the fundamental ideas which remain influential among modern investigators using many different techniques. Around the turn of the century, this type of study evolved into true experiments directed toward discovering deficits produced by surgical lesions in trained animals.

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Semmes, J. (1973). Somesthetic Effects of Damage to the Central Nervous System. In: Iggo, A. (eds) Somatosensory System. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65438-1_19

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