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Maybe this is just my roundabout way of asking where I can learn more about the leading hypotheses about what’s mapped onto the premotor and supplementary motor areas.

#neuroscience

For instance, a footballer can just as easily catch a ball with their hands (which is debatably their primary function, i.e. catching/holding) as they can between their knees. I wouldn’t be surprised if some rather complex, non-locomotive concepts are also mapped onto the motor cortices.

Are there any great books or academic papers that explain how the body might be conceptually represented within the central nervous system? I already have a basic understanding of the somatotopic mapping of the body onto the motor and sensory cortices.

For those interested.

www.cutter.com/article/envi...

Found out today that caffeine’s effect on wakefulness might be specifically mediated by adenosine receptors in the shell of the nucleus accumbens rather than by those more widely distributed throughout the CNS. Pretty cool!

Carl Jung on our lack of involvement in nature.

I don’t yet know enough about neuroscientific literature to say this with conviction, but it seems to me that our collective fascination with the operations of the CNS is centred on the computational prowess of grey matter rather than on the unspeakably complex mediations undertaken by white matter.

In many ways, this new chapter of my life is inaugurated by Paul Lockhart’s lamentations about the way mathematics are taught.