In a previous post, I drew attention to the parallel between a particular kind of psychotic delusion and the “homuncular thinking” that has recently been found to be beneficial to autistic children.

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 ...

The iconic ‘homunculus’ diagram, which shows how the brain controls individual body parts, has been overhauled to include complex movements. Since the 1930s, the diagram has been used to show a brain ...