Fine touch
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Fine touch, is a sensory modality which allows a subject to sense and localise touch. The form of touch where localisation is not possible is known as crude touch
.
The posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway
is the pathway responsible for the sending of fine touch information to the cerebral cortex
of the brain.
Crude touch
Crude touch is a sensory modality which allows the subject to sense that something has touched them, without being able to localise where they were touched...
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The posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway
Posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway
The posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway is the sensory pathway responsible for transmitting fine touch, vibration and conscious proprioceptive information from the body to the cerebral cortex; as well as tactile pressure, barognosis, graphesthesia, stereognosis, recognition...
is the pathway responsible for the sending of fine touch information to the cerebral cortex
Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is a sheet of neural tissue that is outermost to the cerebrum of the mammalian brain. It plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. It is constituted of up to six horizontal layers, each of which has a different...
of the brain.