Origins of the Homunculus
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to Dr. Wilder Penfield. and his co-investigators Dr. Edwin Boldrey and Dr. Theodore Rasmussen are considered to be the originators of the Sensory and Motor Homunculi.
They were not the first scientists to attempt to objectify human brain function by means of a Homunculus. However, they were the first to differentiate between sensory and motor function and to map the two functions across the brain separately, resulting in two different Homunculi. Dr. Penfield first conceived of his Homunculi as a thought experiment, and went so far as to envision an imaginary world in which the Homunculi lived. He referred to this world as "if". He and his colleagues went on to experiment with electrical stimulation of the brain of patients undergoing open brain surgery, his work in this field has contributed enormously to our ability to control epilepsy, In addition, their drawings and work have become some of the most famous conceptual maps in modern neuroscience. Dr. Penfield's topographical maps of the brain maps have not only contributed to our knowledge of human brain function but also have positively changed the lives of thousands of people throughout the world. |
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