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TWO POINT TACTILE
TWO POINT TACTILE
VIBRATORY SENSE- soft tissue and bone
Stereognosis- spatial sense determining 3-D shapes.
This is a highly sensitive and somatotopically localized sensory system. The type and location of receptors form the base of the system. Somatotopic mapping of the axonal projections ascending the spinal cord to the mmedial lemniscus have terminal branches from the periphery that map precisely in the cerebral cortex.