Mick Is Getting a Tattoo

Mick is getting a tattoo. The tattoo artist creates tiny points adjacent to each other on the skin to tattoo a line. The information from the needle pricks will be represented in the primary somatosensory cortex:

A) by a single cell with a receptive field responsive to tactile lines
B) as a pattern of neural responses that code indirectly for location
C) in the same general area that processes tactile information from the arm
D) in a line of adjacent points

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