the connections of pa with the primary somatosensory cortex , area 3b , the location of pa relative to the ventroposterior nucleus , and the high degree of topographic order in the connections of pa with the postcentral cortex suggest that pa is an integral part of the somatosensory thalamus in monkeys and is homologous to the medial nucleus of the posterior group ( pom ) in other mammals .
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thalamus
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medial