Which portion of the cerebral cortex lies at the top of the head and toward the rear and receives sensory input for touch and body position?

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Which portion of the cerebral cortex lies at the top of the head and toward the rear and receives sensory input for touch and body position?

Touch and body-position information are processed in the parietal lobes. The primary somatosensory cortex sits in the postcentral gyrus just behind the central groove, and it receives input from touch receptors and proprioceptors, giving us sensations of pressure, temperature, pain, and where our body parts are in space. This region is organized so that body areas needing fine touch (like hands and lips) have larger representations. By contrast, the frontal lobes handle movement and planning, the occipital lobes handle vision, and the temporal lobes handle hearing and memory. So the description points to the parietal lobes.

Touch and body-position information are processed in the parietal lobes. The primary somatosensory cortex sits in the postcentral gyrus just behind the central groove, and it receives input from touch receptors and proprioceptors, giving us sensations of pressure, temperature, pain, and where our body parts are in space. This region is organized so that body areas needing fine touch (like hands and lips) have larger representations. By contrast, the frontal lobes handle movement and planning, the occipital lobes handle vision, and the temporal lobes handle hearing and memory. So the description points to the parietal lobes.

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