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🗺️Wilder Penfield

Cortical maps from the operating room — the sensory homunculus.

Also called: homunculus

Wilder Penfield
United States National Library of Medicine · Public domain
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  • Complexity75
  • Clinical weight45
  • Plasticity39
  • Live debate41

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Sources & research

  1. The cerebral cortex of manPenfield W; Rasmussen T · 1950 · Macmillan
  2. Somatotopic organization of the primary motor cortexSchott GD · 1993 · Journal of NeurologyDOI

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