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What is a Homunculus
A sensory Homunculus is a figure that operates as an objective map of the brain and body connection, a topographic representation of the sensory distribution of the body found within the cerebral cortex. Importantly, the amount of cortex devoted to any given body region is not proportional to its size or surface area, but rather how richly innervated (supplied with nerves) that region is. Consequently, areas of the body with less numerous somatosensory connections are represented as being smaller, whilst body regions rich in sensory or motor connections are perceived as being large. The result of this is a distorted human body in which the varying features and body areas have grown or shrunk to create what its creator, Dr Penfield Wilder called a ‘Grotesque figure’. The word Homunculus is Latin for "little man". My Homunculus can be used as visual teaching aids and are bought by Universities, Educational establishments and museums all over the world. All my little men are made to the highest quality and delivered at standard commercial rates. |
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