homunculus
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What was this distinct brain network right in the middle of the homunculus?
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
As a student and later as a practitioner in the field, I had accepted the homunculus as unquestioned fact.
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
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
Now Saul Zaentz and his studio partners have a new target, albeit one less likely to elicit sympathy from fans of hairy-footed Shire-dwelling homunculi: low-budget flick Age of the Hobbits.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
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
He had explained at length to somebody that magical receipts existed for the manufacture of homunculi.
From The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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