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Processes sensory information from the skin, muscles, and joints, enabling perception of touch, pressure, pain, temperature, and proprioception or awareness of body position and movement.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.Text 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"c679cb3f-7e92-48b4-abda-02fe988c2bd5"}],"header":"Primary Somatosensory Cortex"},{"position":{"x":60.02907050414491,"y":63.88093915957239},"alwaysFullscreen":false,"content":[{"params":{"text":"

Processes auditory information received from the ears, enabling perception of sound frequency, intensity, and localization.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.Text 1.1","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"},"subContentId":"70ac7e37-b289-4f44-9a38-63afd95e104b"}],"header":"Primary Auditory Cortex"},{"position":{"x":94.8037798317428,"y":55.648915873111136},"alwaysFullscreen":false,"content":[{"params":{"text":"

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Brain regions and functions

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Elham Satvat, PhD