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  1. Medieval thinkers believed tiny humans already existed inside sperm and could be grown artificially. Was the homunculus an early scientific idea—or a dangerous misunderstanding of life?
    #DarkHistory #Alchemy #Homunculus #ScienceHistory #Mystery
    Read more:ancient-origins.net/weird-fact

  2. Medieval thinkers believed tiny humans already existed inside sperm and could be grown artificially. Was the homunculus an early scientific idea—or a dangerous misunderstanding of life?
    #DarkHistory #Alchemy #Homunculus #ScienceHistory #Mystery
    Read more:ancient-origins.net/weird-fact

  3. Medieval thinkers believed tiny humans already existed inside sperm and could be grown artificially. Was the homunculus an early scientific idea—or a dangerous misunderstanding of life?
    #DarkHistory #Alchemy #Homunculus #ScienceHistory #Mystery
    Read more:ancient-origins.net/weird-fact

  4. Medieval thinkers believed tiny humans already existed inside sperm and could be grown artificially. Was the homunculus an early scientific idea—or a dangerous misunderstanding of life?
    #DarkHistory #Alchemy #Homunculus #ScienceHistory #Mystery
    Read more:ancient-origins.net/weird-fact

  5. "we find that the classic homunculus is interrupted by regions with distinct connectivity, structure and function, alternating with effector-specific (foot, hand and mouth) areas." This suggests "that M1 is punctuated by a system for whole-body action planning. two parallel systems intertwine, forming integrate–isolate effector-specific regions for isolating fine motor control and a system for integrating goals, physiology & body movement."

    #revised #homunculus
    researchgate.net/publication/3

  6. "we find that the classic homunculus is interrupted by regions with distinct connectivity, structure and function, alternating with effector-specific (foot, hand and mouth) areas." This suggests "that M1 is punctuated by a system for whole-body action planning. two parallel systems intertwine, forming integrate–isolate effector-specific regions for isolating fine motor control and a system for integrating goals, physiology & body movement."

    #revised #homunculus
    researchgate.net/publication/3

  7. "we find that the classic homunculus is interrupted by regions with distinct connectivity, structure and function, alternating with effector-specific (foot, hand and mouth) areas." This suggests "that M1 is punctuated by a system for whole-body action planning. two parallel systems intertwine, forming integrate–isolate effector-specific regions for isolating fine motor control and a system for integrating goals, physiology & body movement."

    #revised #homunculus
    researchgate.net/publication/3

  8. "we find that the classic homunculus is interrupted by regions with distinct connectivity, structure and function, alternating with effector-specific (foot, hand and mouth) areas." This suggests "that M1 is punctuated by a system for whole-body action planning. two parallel systems intertwine, forming integrate–isolate effector-specific regions for isolating fine motor control and a system for integrating goals, physiology & body movement."

    #revised #homunculus
    researchgate.net/publication/3

  9. "we find that the classic homunculus is interrupted by regions with distinct connectivity, structure and function, alternating with effector-specific (foot, hand and mouth) areas." This suggests "that M1 is punctuated by a system for whole-body action planning. two parallel systems intertwine, forming integrate–isolate effector-specific regions for isolating fine motor control and a system for integrating goals, physiology & body movement."

    #revised #homunculus
    researchgate.net/publication/3

  10. "The insight that might be helpful is this: We don't have a little person inside of us. None of us do."

    seths.blog/2023/05/our-homuncu #ai #homunculus

  11. "The insight that might be helpful is this: We don't have a little person inside of us. None of us do."

    seths.blog/2023/05/our-homuncu #ai #homunculus

  12. "The insight that might be helpful is this: We don't have a little person inside of us. None of us do."

    seths.blog/2023/05/our-homuncu

  13. "The insight that might be helpful is this: We don't have a little person inside of us. None of us do."

    seths.blog/2023/05/our-homuncu #ai #homunculus

  14. "The insight that might be helpful is this: We don't have a little person inside of us. None of us do."

    seths.blog/2023/05/our-homuncu #ai #homunculus

  15. How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a 'Little Man' in the Brain Who Controls Movement - Scientific American

    In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the #homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head in a portion of the cerebral cortex that controls movement. Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in the 1930s.

    From this work, a nurse working with Penfield created one of science’s most iconic illustrations. It shows the homunculus stretched out over the brain’s surface, a small body with enlarged mouth, hands and feet, each part exaggerated in proportion to the amount of neural real estate occupied.

    scientificamerican.com/article

  16. How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a 'Little Man' in the Brain Who Controls Movement - Scientific American

    In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the #homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head in a portion of the cerebral cortex that controls movement. Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in the 1930s.

    From this work, a nurse working with Penfield created one of science’s most iconic illustrations. It shows the homunculus stretched out over the brain’s surface, a small body with enlarged mouth, hands and feet, each part exaggerated in proportion to the amount of neural real estate occupied.

    scientificamerican.com/article

  17. How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a 'Little Man' in the Brain Who Controls Movement - Scientific American

    In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the #homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head in a portion of the cerebral cortex that controls movement. Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in the 1930s.

    From this work, a nurse working with Penfield created one of science’s most iconic illustrations. It shows the homunculus stretched out over the brain’s surface, a small body with enlarged mouth, hands and feet, each part exaggerated in proportion to the amount of neural real estate occupied.

    scientificamerican.com/article

  18. How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a 'Little Man' in the Brain Who Controls Movement - Scientific American

    In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the #homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head in a portion of the cerebral cortex that controls movement. Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in the 1930s.

    From this work, a nurse working with Penfield created one of science’s most iconic illustrations. It shows the homunculus stretched out over the brain’s surface, a small body with enlarged mouth, hands and feet, each part exaggerated in proportion to the amount of neural real estate occupied.

    scientificamerican.com/article

  19. How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a 'Little Man' in the Brain Who Controls Movement - Scientific American

    In my first neuroscience course at Columbia University, I learned about the #homunculus. This “little man” is depicted as an upside-down representation of the human body moving from toe to head in a portion of the cerebral cortex that controls movement. Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in the 1930s.

    From this work, a nurse working with Penfield created one of science’s most iconic illustrations. It shows the homunculus stretched out over the brain’s surface, a small body with enlarged mouth, hands and feet, each part exaggerated in proportion to the amount of neural real estate occupied.

    scientificamerican.com/article

  20. A point that I think is frequently missed in the discussion surrounding the new homunculus paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-059) is that even Penfield himself said not to take his homunculus literally! And in fact we've known for quite some time that M1 in primates and rodents doesn't map solely to single parts of the body, but instead maps to actions too. See this great review from 2016 - doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.10

    #fMRI #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain #Macaque

  21. A point that I think is frequently missed in the discussion surrounding the new homunculus paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-059) is that even Penfield himself said not to take his homunculus literally! And in fact we've known for quite some time that M1 in primates and rodents doesn't map solely to single parts of the body, but instead maps to actions too. See this great review from 2016 - doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.10

    #fMRI #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain #Macaque

  22. A point that I think is frequently missed in the discussion surrounding the new homunculus paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-059) is that even Penfield himself said not to take his homunculus literally! And in fact we've known for quite some time that M1 in primates and rodents doesn't map solely to single parts of the body, but instead maps to actions too. See this great review from 2016 - doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.10

    #fMRI #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain #Macaque

  23. A point that I think is frequently missed in the discussion surrounding the new homunculus paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-059) is that even Penfield himself said not to take his homunculus literally! And in fact we've known for quite some time that M1 in primates and rodents doesn't map solely to single parts of the body, but instead maps to actions too. See this great review from 2016 - doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.10

    #fMRI #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain #Macaque

  24. A point that I think is frequently missed in the discussion surrounding the new homunculus paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-059) is that even Penfield himself said not to take his homunculus literally! And in fact we've known for quite some time that M1 in primates and rodents doesn't map solely to single parts of the body, but instead maps to actions too. See this great review from 2016 - doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.10

    #fMRI #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain #Macaque

  25. A classic, updated: Penfield's homunculus revisited. The authors propose an interrupted homunculus, as an integrate–isolate model of action and motor control.

    "A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex"
    Gordon et al. 2023
    nature.com/articles/s41586-023

    Let's hope it passes the test of time, because Penfield used electrodes, whereas this new work is with #fMRI.

    #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain

  26. A classic, updated: Penfield's homunculus revisited. The authors propose an interrupted homunculus, as an integrate–isolate model of action and motor control.

    "A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex"
    Gordon et al. 2023
    nature.com/articles/s41586-023

    Let's hope it passes the test of time, because Penfield used electrodes, whereas this new work is with #fMRI.

    #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain

  27. A classic, updated: Penfield's homunculus revisited. The authors propose an interrupted homunculus, as an integrate–isolate model of action and motor control.

    "A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex"
    Gordon et al. 2023
    nature.com/articles/s41586-023

    Let's hope it passes the test of time, because Penfield used electrodes, whereas this new work is with #fMRI.

    #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain

  28. A classic, updated: Penfield's homunculus revisited. The authors propose an interrupted homunculus, as an integrate–isolate model of action and motor control.

    "A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex"
    Gordon et al. 2023
    nature.com/articles/s41586-023

    Let's hope it passes the test of time, because Penfield used electrodes, whereas this new work is with #fMRI.

    #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain

  29. A classic, updated: Penfield's homunculus revisited. The authors propose an interrupted homunculus, as an integrate–isolate model of action and motor control.

    "A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex"
    Gordon et al. 2023
    nature.com/articles/s41586-023

    Let's hope it passes the test of time, because Penfield used electrodes, whereas this new work is with #fMRI.

    #neuroscience #Penfield #homunculus #brain

  30. Mind-Body Connection Is Built Into Brain

    Brain areas that control movement are plugged into networks that orchestrate thinking and planning, and control involuntary bodily functions. The findings provide a link between the body and the “mind” in the brain’s structure.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus
    #SomatoCognitiveActionNetwork #SCAN
    #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    neurosciencenews.com/mind-body

  31. Mind-Body Connection Is Built Into Brain

    Brain areas that control movement are plugged into networks that orchestrate thinking and planning, and control involuntary bodily functions. The findings provide a link between the body and the “mind” in the brain’s structure.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus
    #SomatoCognitiveActionNetwork #SCAN
    #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    neurosciencenews.com/mind-body

  32. Mind-Body Connection Is Built Into Brain

    Brain areas that control movement are plugged into networks that orchestrate thinking and planning, and control involuntary bodily functions. The findings provide a link between the body and the “mind” in the brain’s structure.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus
    #SomatoCognitiveActionNetwork #SCAN
    #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    neurosciencenews.com/mind-body

  33. Mind-Body Connection Is Built Into Brain

    Brain areas that control movement are plugged into networks that orchestrate thinking and planning, and control involuntary bodily functions. The findings provide a link between the body and the “mind” in the brain’s structure.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus
    #SomatoCognitiveActionNetwork #SCAN
    #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    neurosciencenews.com/mind-body

  34. Famous ‘homunculus’ brain map redrawn to include complex movements

    Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  35. Famous ‘homunculus’ brain map redrawn to include complex movements

    Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  36. Famous ‘homunculus’ brain map redrawn to include complex movements

    Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  37. Famous ‘homunculus’ brain map redrawn to include complex movements

    Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

    #Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #BrainMap #MotorCortex #Homunculus #Neuroimaging #fMRI

    nature.com/articles/d41586-023

  38. Mindfulness haiku.

    Right foot before left
    or left foot ahead of right—
    homunculus steps.

    #Haiku #TinyPoems #Mindfulness #Homunculus

  39. Mindfulness haiku.

    Right foot before left
    or left foot ahead of right—
    homunculus steps.

    #Haiku #TinyPoems #Mindfulness #Homunculus

  40. Mindfulness haiku.

    Right foot before left
    or left foot ahead of right—
    homunculus steps.

    #Haiku #TinyPoems #Mindfulness #Homunculus

  41. Mindfulness haiku.

    Right foot before left
    or left foot ahead of right—
    homunculus steps.

    #Haiku #TinyPoems #Mindfulness #Homunculus

  42. Mindfulness haiku.

    Right foot before left
    or left foot ahead of right—
    homunculus steps.

    #Haiku #TinyPoems #Mindfulness #Homunculus

  43. YES. @jamesmharrison reminded me that "Inhibition is something that we DO".

    But to tease apart dynamics of goal-directed activation amidst goal-directed suppression... especially when the goal may be unconscious or habitual in one instance, or skilled and volitional in another?

    This new preprint may have the methodology needed to tease these things apart - "A mind-body interface alternates with effector-specific regions in motor cortex" 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #neuroscience #homunculus

  44. YES. @jamesmharrison reminded me that "Inhibition is something that we DO".

    But to tease apart dynamics of goal-directed activation amidst goal-directed suppression... especially when the goal may be unconscious or habitual in one instance, or skilled and volitional in another?

    This new preprint may have the methodology needed to tease these things apart - "A mind-body interface alternates with effector-specific regions in motor cortex" 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #neuroscience #homunculus

  45. YES. @jamesmharrison reminded me that "Inhibition is something that we DO".

    But to tease apart dynamics of goal-directed activation amidst goal-directed suppression... especially when the goal may be unconscious or habitual in one instance, or skilled and volitional in another?

    This new preprint may have the methodology needed to tease these things apart - "A mind-body interface alternates with effector-specific regions in motor cortex" 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #neuroscience #homunculus