| Somatotopic
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| • | Preserves
neighborhood relations |
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| • | Like a slide
projector |
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| – | Slide=peripheral
receptive sheet |
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| – | Light=peripheral
and central pathways |
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| – | Screen=central
nervous system representation |
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| • | All processing
stages and tracts in touch |
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| pathway are
somatotopically organized |
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| • | Similar
organization for vision (retinotopic) |
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| and auditory
system (tonotopic) |
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