bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/599167; this version posted April 4, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Within-finger maps of tactile and nociceptive input in the human parietal cortex 2 3 Flavia Mancini1,2*, Martin I. Sereno3, Min-Ho Lee4, Giandomenico D Iannetti2, Irene Tracey4 4 5 1Computational and Biological Learning, Department of Engineering, University of 6 Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 7 2Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, 8 London, UK 9 3Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA 10 4Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical 11 Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 12 13 14 15 *Corresponding author: 16 Dr Flavia Mancini 17 Computational and Biological Learning, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 18 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ 19
[email protected] 20 21 22 23 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/599167; this version posted April 4, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 24 Abstract 25 26 The spatial representation of nociceptive input in the human parietal cortex is not fully 27 understood. For instance, it is known that the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) contains a 28 representation of nociceptive-selective input to different fingers, but it is unclear whether S1 29 subdivisions contain finer-grained, within-finger maps of nociceptive input.