“This is the moment when we started thinking of the SCAN.” The authors dub the network of brain regions associated with the inter-effector regions the somato-cognitive action system (SCAN). This is a ...

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 ...

Functional MRI scans provide a new version of the motor homunculus, ... E.M. Gordon et al/Nature 2023 A long-reigning map (left) of the primary motor cortex, or motor homunculus, ...

The bizarre-looking ‘homunculus’ is one of neuroscience’s most fundamental diagrams. Found in countless textbooks, it depicts a deformed constellation of body parts mapped onto a narrow ...

Quirks and Quarks 54:02 Sharks that hold their breath, 2000 year old condor nest, why deer don’t get Lyme disease, redrawing the motor homunculus and new vaccine technologies for the next pandemic ...