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The point-for-point correspondence of an area of the body to a specific point on the central nervous system.

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Intracranial tumours displaced the motor fascicles without affecting their relative somatotopy.
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The fMRI data were assessed by three fMRI expert observers who rated each activation map for somatotopy and usefulness for radiological neurosurgical guidance.
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This somatotopic arrangement closely matches that described for SII and PV in nonhuman primates.
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Long-term cortical reorganization of the somatotopic arrangement of the digits after alterations of the peripheral input is well established.
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