As any neurologist could tell you, that old tale about how humans only use 10% of our brains is a load of bunk, but the idea continues to exert a fascination within the realms of pulp entertainment.

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 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 ...

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhoodfeatured a variety of homunculi to serve as the antagonists, with those homunculi varying greatly in their design. There were only a few rules to these artificial ...

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 ...