homunculus
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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
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
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
And they think that computers don’t have this homunculus.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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