homunculus
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But when we moved up or down this brain section that makes up the homunculus, we were in for a surprise.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in the 1930s.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
As part of our quest, we became aware of contradictory findings in macaques and other nonhuman primates, which had not at the time sufficed to challenge the homunculus metaphor.
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
If that were the case, it implied that maybe, just maybe, the classic “little man” figure of the homunculus needed to be redrawn.
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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