58008@lemmy.world to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agoCortical homunculus - A distorted visual representation of the human form, with body part proportions analogous to the size of the area of the brain responsible for controlling themen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkCortical homunculus - A distorted visual representation of the human form, with body part proportions analogous to the size of the area of the brain responsible for controlling themen.wikipedia.org58008@lemmy.world to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square0fedilinkfile-text
The validity of the ‘map’ of the brain used as the basis for this idea has been called into question.