Central nervous structures participanting in the simple recognition of touch.
Short review of a series of experiments in the dog aimed at studying the correlation between lesions of the two cerebral somatosensory areas or the different spinal pathways projecting to these areas and defects in tactile sensitivity.
D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000502:physiology*; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology*