Neural basis for tongue dexterity: Multiple units recording from the somatosensory cortex of awake animals.

来自口面结构的躯体感觉信息在后中央躯体感觉皮层的外侧部分及其邻近的联合皮层进行处理。在那里，附近的神经元对自然刺激做出反应，或者在连续的舌头运动中被激活，具有不同程度的时间相关性。小区域内神经元活动的时间多样性可能有助于大脑监测持续触觉刺激或连续口面运动的时间过程。

Somesthetic information arising from orofacial structures is processed in the lateral part of the postcentral somatosensory cortex and itsneighboring association cortex. There, nearby pairs of neurons responded to a natural stimulus, or were activated during successive tongue movements, with varying degrees of temporal correlation. The temporal diversity of neuronal activity within a small region might help the brain to monitor the time course of sustained tactile stimulation, or successive orofacial movements.