The discoveries could ultimately help women who have suffered nerve damage in childbirth or disease. ... Until recently, the position of female genitalia on the homunculus had only been guessed at.

In a 1950 book, he offered a map of this so-called homunculus. ... Each whisker is surrounded by a dense cluster of nerve endings, all of which feed information into the brain.

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.

In Hideo Yamamoto’s manga series “Homunculus,” this untapped cerebral potential is unleashed through a method based on even shakier science: the skull-perforating technique known as trepanning.

Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com.