ALPHABETICAL BRAIN VOCABULARY Flash Card #25- Details WHAT IS YOUR "SENSORY CORTEX" AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? Your SENSORY CORTEX is known as your "somatosensory strip," which is situated at the front side of your PARIETAL CORTEX (parietal lobes) behind your CENTRAL SULCUS. It is dedicated to receiving, sorting, and processing electrical signals (impulses) flowing through your NEURON PATHWAYS from your muscles and skin to your spinal cord and into your brain in order to alert you to changing environmental situations that might impact your safety and survival. Once it receives the electrical impulses, it sends them to your BASAL GANGLIA, which is located within your LIMBIC SYSTEM and which is intricately connected to both the "emotional" processing part of your brain's Limbic System and the "intellectual" processing part of your brain's PreFrontal Cortex. SOURCES = Books, [1] The Human Brain and [2] The Brain --- A User's Guide. Return to #25: SENSORY CORTEX or BRAIN FACTS MATRIX