Neuroscience
How Our Team Overturned the 90-Year-Old Metaphor of a ‘Little Man’ in the Brain Who Controls Movement
A pillar of every neuroscience textbook, the classic “homunculus” has just gone through a radical revision
Nico U.F. Dosenbach is an associate professor of pediatric neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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