If there is one thing that I remember with mixed feelings from my biology classes, it is Nicolaas Hartsoeker's drawing of the homunculus from 1694, which shows a tiny man curled up inside a sperm ...

When my kids were small, I had them draw a self-portrait on each birthday. ... Their pictures looked much more like the "somatosensory homunculus" in our brain than a real child.

The homunculus is made up of brain cells that represent our fingers, ... During aging, however, these cells presumably start to slack off; like an ink drawing that someone spills water on, ...

In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head ...

The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region ...