Redefining The Motor Cortex | Changing 100 years of Neuroscience
Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast
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The Motor Homunculus: A Picture of a Man
The homunculus is a picture of a man, but he's got these exaggerated features. So for example, he's got large hands, large feet, large tongue. He looks like it's got a gramagulae. But yeah, very big face tongue mouth. And so this homunculus are a representation of what parts of the brain map to certain muscles of the body? What part of the motor cortex? That's right and the bigger... To the contralateral part of the body.
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