homunculus
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It shows the homunculus stretched out over the brain’s surface, a small body with enlarged mouth, hands and feet, each part exaggerated in proportion to the amount of neural real estate occupied.
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
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
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
And they think that this person is their special human mind, which is called a homunculus, which means a little man.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
The myth of artificial life, from homunculi and cyborgs to robots and androids, is the focus of an exhibition about the Golem at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
From US News ● Sep. 22, 2016
We had been eager to interview Ms. Holmes about small men — the homunculi who infest her character’s house in the movie.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2011
Away from hunky homunculi territory, the video reminds us of the return of Hugo Weaving's Elrond and Cate Blanchett's Galadriel, and delivers an interesting nugget about another vital returnee from The Lord of the Rings.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2011
Another Irishman, James Nesbitt, was tipped to play Bofur the dwarf, one of the 12 bearded homunculi who arrive at Baggins's hobbit hole with Gandalf in JRR Tolkien's classic fantasy tale.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
Of these, the most marvellous were those strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi.
From The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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