The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is ...

Using brain scans, neuroscientists from Emory University have revised a decades-old map of the homunculus — a visual representation of the primary motor cortex and how it corresponds to bodily ...

Last week I wrote about a crazy diagram called the “homunculus,” which shows how your body would look if each part were scaled to the amount of real estate it occupies in the brain: Your hands and ...