This new brain map shows almost 100 areas never described before

You don’t have to be a neurosurgeon to know it’s hard to get to the right place without a good map. But neuroscientists have been blundering around with blurry brain maps, which sometimes aren’t very detailed, or omit important functions. That’s why a new map is so exciting — it shows nearly 100 areas that hadn’t been reported before.
The map, described in a study published today in Nature, is a detailed look at the part of the brain that handles all your sens