The bizarre-looking ‘homunculus’ is one of neuroscience’s most fundamental diagrams. Found in countless textbooks, it depicts a deformed constellation of body parts mapped onto a narrow strip of the ...

The female sexual brain has been charted. For the first time, the brain regions that respond to stimulation of the clitoris, cervix, vagina and nipples have been mapped in a new study. Not ...

Dennis O'Leary of the Salk Institute was the first scientist to show that the basic functional architecture of the cortex, the largest part of the human brain, was genetically determined during ...

All the surface of the human body is represented in the cerebral cortex in a transversal band localized at the external part of the cerebral hemispheres: the somatosensory cortex. Each body region ...

Rolf Degen has an interesting post on the question of how much of the brain is devoted to processing touch stimuli from the penis. The Fake Homunculus: A new book about sex depicts a beefed-up ...

We all know what bodies look like from the outside. This cortical homunculus is how your brain sees your body from the inside. In the 1930s, Wilder Penfield performed surgeries on patients with ...