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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-58412062018-03-28 A little man of some importance Catani, Marco Brain Dorsal column 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. Oxford University Press 2017-11 2017-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5841206/ /pubmed/29088352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx270 Text en © The Author (2017). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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