Neurons work together to form our sense of texture. As neurons in somatosensory cortex process information about texture from sensors in the skin, they each respond differently to various features of a surface, creating a high-dimensional representation of texture in the brain, researchers report.

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Neurons work together to form our sense of texture. As neurons in somatosensory cortex process information about texture from sensors in the skin, they each respond differently to various features of a surface, creating a high-dimensional representation of texture in the brain, researchers report.