For 200 years, scientists have speculated that different parts of the brain were responsible for different types of activity and behaviors and have tried to build maps of the brain, carving it up into ...
Don’t get too creeped out, but there are a whole lot of people walking around right now with a map of your face in their brains. But at least it’s a two-way street—you have their faces mapped in yours ...
Sense receptors distributed over the body surface are represented in corresponding sensory maps in somatosensory cortex (S1). Like in Penfield's "Homunculus" illustration, their size in S1 is dictated ...