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.

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 cortical homunculus represents the importance of various parts of your body as seen by your brain. There is little need for the brain to know what’s going on in the arms and legs.

A homunculus is essentially ‘a little man’ inside you, the agent behind your actions, the decider behind your decisions, the see-er behind your sight.

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 ...