homunculus
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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
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
What was this distinct brain network right in the middle of the homunculus?
From Scientific American • Apr. 21, 2023
I filed the broken homunculus discovery in the “does not compute” folder of my brain and tried to work on other projects.
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
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