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Figure 8.2 . Somatosensory and motor homunculus.

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Somatosensory and motor homunculus. The figure shows a distorted representation of the human body based on the cortical representation of each body part in the primary somatosensory (S1; left) and motor (M1; right) cortices. (OpenStax College, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)

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