“What is a Sensory Homonculus?
The neuroanatomical definition of homunculus is a “distorted” representation of the sensorimotor body map (and its respective parts) overlaid upon primary somatosensory and primary motor cortices. The above figure illustrates the sensory homunculus, where each body part is placed onto the region of cortex that represents it, and the size of the body part is proportional to its cortical representation (and sensitivity).” —http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-clitoral-homunculus.html
The neuroanatomical definition of homunculus is a “distorted” representation of the sensorimotor body map (and its respective parts) overlaid upon primary somatosensory and primary motor cortices. The above figure illustrates the sensory homunculus, where each body part is placed onto the region of cortex that represents it, and the size of the body part is proportional to its cortical representation (and sensitivity).” —http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-clitoral-homunculus.html
