A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Quicker brake response time for warnings at the finger and wrist area may be explained by the relative sizes of cortex area in the brain which corresponds to the sensory organs, as visualized by the ...

The somatosensory cortex is a region of the mammalian brain known to play a crucial role in the processing of sensory information, including tactile sensations, temperature and pain. While this ...

The homunculus is one of the most iconic images in neurology and neuroscience. Usually visualised as a series of disproportionately sized body parts splayed across a section of the brain, it shows how ...

More information: Sebastian Reinartz et al, Direct contribution of the sensory cortex to the judgment of stimulus duration, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45970-0 ...

Depiction of the motor homunculus in a 1981 exhibit at the Ontario Science Center Canadian science museum. McConnell; Colin (Toronto Star / Getty) Do me a favor: put your hands in front of your eyes ...

Study: A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Image Credit: r.classen/Shutterstock.com Background The human motor cortex was initially described as a ...

The motor cortex homunculus is getting a makeover. New research has essentially redrawn the motor cortex and constitutes one of the most substantial shifts in our topographical knowledge of a sensory ...

As a result, the motor cortex can be thought of as a continuous map of the regions that it controls, often illustrated as a homunculus (shown to the left of the motor cortex). b, Gordon et al. 1 ...