homunculus
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The homunculus likely lived to the age of 90 because everyone loves a good story.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
Why would there be this separate fundamentally different profile of brain connections right in the middle of this section of motor cortex if there was only a single integral homunculus?
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
From his pocket he took a clay homunculus figure, three inches tall, the last of those he’d made on Cairnholm.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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