Why Does the Somatosensory Homunculus Have Hands Next to Face and Feet Next to Genitals? A Hypothesis

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Neural Computation

• Publication date

  1998-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1162/089976698300016936PMID 9804668
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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