A little man of some importance

Eighty years ago, Penfield and Boldrey introduced the homunculus in a paper published in Brain. In a reappraisal of the iconic aide-mémoire, Marco Catani reanalyses the original data, and argues that through its extended network the homunculus holds the key to the precise coding that results in coor...

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Autor principal: Catani, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:
Dorsal column
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29088352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx270
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Sumario:Eighty years ago, Penfield and Boldrey introduced the homunculus in a paper published in Brain. In a reappraisal of the iconic aide-mémoire, Marco Catani reanalyses the original data, and argues that through its extended network the homunculus holds the key to the precise coding that results in coordinated activation of peripheral muscles.

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