I always loved these homunculi drawings in intro psych and neuro books. These sculptures from the London Natural History Museum are even better!
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And finally if you have no idea what the heck is going on here. Wikipedia has a good description of the homunculus.
[edit by Sandra - in keeping with our new R-rating, see the NSFW image of a proposed revision involving the penis. Read more here. Oh, and I find it curious/sexist that I can't find an image representing a female homunculus...]
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My mid-year resolution is to become a more sociable blogger--to point out good posts elsewhere that might otherwise be missed.
Maybe you've seen this before: it's a diagram of the sensory and motor cortex of the brain, with a little man or homunculus drawn over it to illustrate the somatic areas associated with each region. You see where the little man's knee is on the left image of the sensory cortex?
What is wrong with this picture?
Chris Mooney, CalPundit, Signal+Noise and others have been doing a great job of keeping track of the woeful textboo
It would be cool to see a series of these for other animals, say rat, raccoon, star-nosed mole, platypus etc.
Any one know if/where you can buy these? I'd love a couple on my mantle.
I want to buy them too.