homunculus
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Overall, our findings mean that the homunculus wears no clothes.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
These connections to higher-order control regions planted the idea that the three-spot network might be important for merging motor command signals from the homunculus with neural activity for more abstract planning.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
Later three-dimensional representations of the homunculus depict it as a grotesque, hairless goblin with enormous lips, hands and feet.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
A seemingly absurd pattern popped out in the imaging that showed three interconnected and previously undocumented areas right in the homunculus section of the motor cortex.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
The theory was so seductive—so artfully vivid—that even the invention of the microscope was unable to deal the expected fatal blow to the homunculus.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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