The motor homunculus is a funny-looking fellow with a hulking thumb, delicate toes and a tongue that wags below his head. His body parts and proportions stem from decades-old experiments that mapped ...

The motor cortex homunculus is getting a makeover. New research has essentially redrawn the motor cortex and constitutes one of the most substantial shifts in our topographical knowledge of a sensory ...

Using brain scans, neuroscientists from Emory University have revised a decades-old map of the homunculus — a visual representation of the primary motor cortex and how it corresponds to bodily ...