You are in line at the grocery store and the cashier tells you that you need to pay $2.34 cents, so you reach into your pocket and count two dimes, two nickels and four pennies before pulling them all out and handing them to the cashier. Which area in your brain allowed you to count the coins correctly without seeing them?

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The somatosensory association area processes information from the primary somatosensory cortex and allows for identification and recognition of objects based on touch and other somatic senses. In this case, counting the coins in your pocket without seeing them involves recognition through touch and proprioception, which would activate the somatosensory association area.

You Are in Line at the Grocery Store and the Cashier