Author: Ken Valyear, Senior Lecturer in Sensorimotor and Rehabilitation Neuroscience, Bangor University

We carry a map of our bodies around in our brains. It’s not a literal picture, but an organised pattern of brain activity. So, touch different fingers and different parts of the brain respond. Remarkably, this arrangement is highly consistent from person to person. Known as the somatotopic map, where somato means “body” and topo […]

We carry a map of our bodies around in our brains. It’s not a literal picture, but an organised pattern of brain activity. So, touch different fingers and different parts of the brain respond. Remarkably, this arrangement is highly consistent from person to person. Known as the somatopic map, where somato means “body” and topo […]