What Are the Different Areas of the Somatosensory Cortex?

Somatosensory, or somatic sensation, is a general term for touch, pressure, temperature, pain, and proprioception (in terms of muscle and joint position and movement, body posture and movement, and facial expressions). Somatosensory is a concept relative to special sensation. These different somatosensory patterns originate from different types of receptors. In mammals, the somatosensory ascending neural pathway originates from receptors in different parts of the body. It passes through the posterior column-medial thalamic pathway, the anterior spinal cord, the anterior spinal cord, and the posterior cortical spinal cord. .

Somatosensory

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Somatosensory, or

Upward somatosensory pathway usually includes three

Somatosensory can be classified into: skin sensation, motor sensation and visceral sensation. The first two are the types that are currently well understood. Visceral sensation conveys information about the inside of the body cavity, such as abdominal pain.

Somatosensory technology generally requires the use of somatosensory devices such as handles, foot straps, sensor caps, etc. to complete the capture of human movements and expressions, such as the most commonly known Wii games.

However, there are already more sophisticated technologies. Without the need for equipment, you can capture the movement threads of the human body through the recognizer by using hands and feet, such as Mobisource s "Human Motion Tracking and Analysis Technology" (HEART -Human Expression Analysis and Rendering Technology), directly capture facial expressions and body movements from ordinary webcam. This technology has been applied to IM software, computer games, etc. The most familiar one is Jiuyou Group launched by Jiuyou.com.

The current somatosensory technology is still in the development stage, but has been widely used in games, film and television, medical, etc. With the change of the times and the development of science and technology, the application of somatosensory technology will also be further expanded.