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What is the function of the postcentral gyrus?
To receive information primarily from the skin and muscles. To allow you to experience the sensations of temperature, pain, light touch, and proprioception ( a sense of where your body is). Because it receives sensations from the body, the Parietal Lobe is also called the primary somatosensory area
What is the length X width of a rectangle?
That gives you the surface area.That gives you the surface area.That gives you the surface area.That gives you the surface area.
Number system contains -digits?
yes,number system contains digits..
What is a measure of the number of square units needed to cover the outside of a figure or solid expressed in units squared?
surface area
What is a type of expression that contains a variable or variables?
An algebraic expression is a type of expression that contains a variable or variables.
In which lobe is the postcentral gyrus?
It's in the Parietal Lobe
What separates the precentral and postcentral gyrus?
the central sulcus!
The primary somatosensory area of the cerebral hemisphere is found in the precentral gyrus. true or false?
no the precentral gyrus is the primarymotor area and postcentral gyrus is the sensory area
Sensations from the skin are converted to perceptions in which part of the brain?
its the postcentral gyrus
The size map of each body part in the postcentral gyrus is determined by?
Sensitivity of the body part
Somatesthetic sensations reach the postcentral gyrus by way of a 3rd order neuron which begins in the?
thalamus
Which of the areas of the cerebral cortex receives sensation?
The primary sensory area which is located on the postcentral gyrus of the parietal lobe.
What part of brain lobe contains the somatosensory cortex?
The primary somatosensory cortex is located in the lateral postcentral gyrus. That structure is itself located within the parietal lobe in the cerebral cortex.
Because of the decussation of sensory nerve fibers the right postcentral gyrus monitors sensations from the left side of the body?
true
What percent of the postcentral gyrus would be affected after a stroke?
Only have of the post central gyrus would be affected. Primary somatosensory cortex is another term used for post central gyrus it helps to receive sensory information.
Which unique function of the brain occurs in the postcentral gyrus?
receives primary sensory information of touch, pressure, pain , taste & temperature
From the time a tactile stimulus is detected by a receptor in the foot to the time the resulting nerve impulses arrive in the postcentral gyrus of the brain the impulses will have traveled over?
three
