Functional somatotopy in sensorimotor cortex

In an effort to understand the highly distributed somatotopy of primary motor cortex, this review draws on principles derived from studies of auditory, visual and somatosensory cortical areas. In each case, a behaviorally important feature or function is overlaid in multiple locations on an underlying topographic map of the peripheral sensory surface. Recent studies of hand muscle synergies suggest the types of two-dimensional functional axes that might reasonably be mapped to the two-dimensional surface of the primary motor cortex. However, other research emphasizes that even a functional somatotopy must be extremely flexible.

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