The motor cortex homunculus is getting a makeover. New research has essentially redrawn the motor cortex and constitutes one of the most substantial shifts in our topographical knowledge of a sensory ...

The motor nerves that helped you move your finger connect to the "motor cortex," while the sensory nerves that ... map of your body called a "homunculus," which means "little man" in Latin.

The homunculus’ hand showed the expected connections to the hand region in the other half of the brain, as did the relevant areas of the motor cortex that control movement of the foot and mouth.

It’s becoming clear that the primary motor cortex isn’t “just a simple roster of muscles down the brain that control the toes to the tongue”, he says. The idea of the homunculus dates to ...

This is often depicted as the “sensory homunculus”, a distorted image of a man stretched across the brain, with his genitals lying next to his feet (click here). The size of the body’s parts ...

The three representations are clustered in the same sensory cortical region as the genitals of men on the homunculus. Nipple self-stimulation activated not only the chest region of the homunculus ...

The three representations are clustered in the same sensory cortical region as the genitals of men on the homunculus. Nipple self-stimulation activated not only the chest region of the homunculus ...