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 ...

The homunculus’ hand showed the expected connections to the hand region in the other half of the brain, as did the relevant areas of the motor cortex that control movement of the foot and mouth.

Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

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The team used a motor and action functional MRI task battery to record concentric-shaped effector somatotopies, which were delineated by the CON-associated inter-effector regions (IERs).