Cortical homunculus
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A cortical homunculus is a distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map" of the areas and portions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor functions, and/or sensor
3-D sensory and motor homunculus models at the Natural History Museum, London
Rear of Sensory Homunculus
Somatotopic arrangement
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Somatotopy is the point-for-point correspondence of an area of the body to a specific point on the central nervous system. Typically, the area of the body corresponds to a point on the primary somatos
Cortical homunculus
…and were thus able to produce the topographical brain maps and their corresponding homunculi. More recent studies have improved this understanding of somatotopic arrangement using techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Penfield referred to his creations as "grotesque creatures" due to their…
Precentral gyrus sensory homunculus