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Case: The Patient Who Cannot Locate Touch

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A patient who feels a touch and cannot say where on the body it landed has damage to the parietal lobe.

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Touched on the forearm with eyes closed, the patient reports the sensation and points to the shoulder.

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Sensation and its placement are handled separately. One can survive the loss of the other.

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