Brain Maps – The Sensory Homunculus Figure 2 (left) The mapping pattern of the visual field from the retina to the primary visual cortex.

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Aug 25, 2025 · This cartoon diagram, positioned adjacent to the cortical region, highlights the disproportionate sizes of body parts based on their sensory innervation, offering a unique insight into …

Eventually, artists modeled the original image as two separate three-dimensional homunculi—one related to the sensory cortex and the other to the motor cortex.

A 2-D model of cortical sensory homunculus A cortical homunculus (from Latin homunculus 'little man, miniature human'[1][2]) is a distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological …

In the somatosensory homunculus, body parts with high sensory receptor density, such as the hands, lips, and tongue, are represented by larger areas of the homunculus, indicating a greater cortical …

Sensory Homunculus. The illustration is a sensory homunculus of the primary somatosensory cortex. OpenStax, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jul 31, 2025 · The sensory homunculus, located in the primary somatosensory cortex, illustrates how the brain processes touch, pressure, temperature, and pain. Nerve fibers carrying somatosensory …

There is a map of your body surface on your brain’s cortex. But the map isn’t proportional to actual space. Sensitive parts like your face and hands use more space than less sensitive parts like your …

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