Espiral Atlas
Central nervous systemNeuroanatomy

Primary somatosensory area (S1, areas 3, 1 and 2)

area somatosensoria primaria

Postcentral gyrus of the parietal lobe, just behind the central sulcus. On the medial surface it continues into the paracentral lobule.

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