How to Use somatosensory in a Sentence

somatosensory

adjective
  • The somatosensory cortex enables the brain to sense what the body touches.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • These impulses travel through the central nervous system to the brain's somatosensory cortex.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The somatosensory system registers sensations detected by the muscles, joints, skin and the body tissues that connect them, called the fascia.
    — Gurpreet Singh, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The somatosensory system registers sensations detected by the muscles, joints, skin and the body tissues that connect them, called the fascia.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, the somatosensory neurons that make all these sensations possible constitute the largest sensory system in mammals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Kleinfeld and collaborators then pushed deeper into the brain, examining the network of blood vessels that feed the neurons of the somatosensory cortex.
    — Emily Singer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2013
  • The researchers injected the human tissue into the rats’ somatosensory cortexes — regions that receive and process sensory information like touch or pain.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • That means that long before hominin brains started exponentially growing in size and hominin hands started making stone tools, the basic brain architecture for making somatosensory maps was already in place.
    — Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The Stanford team transplanted these clusters of human cells into the somatosensory cortices of newborn rats—the area that processes sensory information, such as touch, from across the body.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
  • For example, gymnasts who practice walking on narrow beams continuously challenge their somatosensory and vestibular systems.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Ultimately, Lubetzky hopes her VR setup could help measure how much a patient with somatosensory system damage relies on their vision.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Hydro-alpha sanshool activates somatosensory neurons that are responsible for detecting innocuous stimuli such as a gentle touch.
    — Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2016
  • Your somatosensory system takes input from external stimuli, such as heat, cold, pressure, and other physical inputs, and communicates these impulses through your spinal cord to your brain’s cerebral cortex.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
  • However, carbonation doesn't always taste sour to us because CO2 is detected by multiple somatosensory systems in the body.
    — Eunice Liu, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2014
  • But the somatosensory cortex often reacted within 20 milliseconds.
    — Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The compound found in Sichuan peppercorns trigger somatosensory neurons to prevent the influx and efflux of electrolytes, Na^+ and K^+, through ion channels [6,7].
    — Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2016
  • These muscle activations will generate proprioceptive and cutaneous feedback that will activate somatosensory areas, as well as in brain regions that receive input from the superior colliculus.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2018
  • For those looking to regenerate your central nervous system and somatosensory system, give Nerve Control 911 a shot to help support and add protection against faulty nerve signals between the muscles and organs naturally.
    — Andrew Price, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Previous studies in nonhuman primates have found similar delays in reaction time relative to natural touch when researchers delivered electrical stimulation to a single location within somatosensory cortex.
    — David Caldwell, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022

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