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English: Simple line-art sketch of a human brain. The is a layered SVG file with separate layers for the cortex, cerebrellum and eye. Date: 6 May 2009: Source: Own work:
A 2-D model of cortical sensory homunculus. A cortical homunculus (from Latin homunculus 'little man, miniature human' [1] [2]) is a distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map" of the areas and portions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor functions, and/ or sensory functions, for different parts of the body.
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The Numskulls is a comic strip in The Beano, and previously in The Beezer and The Dandy – UK comics owned by D.C Thomson.The strip is about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside the heads of various people, running and maintaining their bodies and minds.
Skull and brain human normal: Date: 23 December 2006: Source: Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator: Author: Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator: Permission (Reusing this file) Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License 2006
The occipital lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals. The name derives from its position at the back of the head, from the Latin ob, 'behind', and caput, 'head'. The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain containing most of the anatomical region of the visual cortex. [1]
What the experiment found was a specific area of the lateral occipitotemporal cortex that responds selectively to visual images of human bodies and body parts, with the exception of faces. The experiment had subjects view images of different objects, including faces (as a control group), body parts, animals, parts of the face and intimate objects.