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 ...

A new study reveals that for the first time, stimulation of the vagina, cervix or clitoris was shown to activate three separate and distinct sites in the sensory cortex. A new study published in The ...

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 ...

Meredith White is a graduate from Texas A&M University. She writes anime feature articles when she's not reading, writing, or playing Dungeons and Dragons. There are seven homunculi, and they all bear ...

The motor homunculus is a funny-looking fellow with a hulking thumb, delicate toes and a tongue that wags below his head. His body parts and proportions stem from decades-old experiments that mapped ...

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 ...