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SOMATOSENSORY AND MOTOR RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 140-152Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/08990220.2013.779246
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Awake macaque monkey; hand movements; mouth movements; secondary somatosensory cortex; sensorimotor integration; single-unit recording
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science and Technology of Japan [17500205]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22500368, 17500205] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Neural activity was recorded in the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) of macaque monkeys during a simple feeding task. Around the border between the representations of the hand and face in SII, we found neurons that became active during both retrieving with the hand and eating; 59% had receptive fields (RFs) in the hand/face and the remaining 41% had no RFs. Neurons that responded to touching objects were rarely found. This suggests their sensorimotor function rather than tactile object recognition.
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