homunculus

How To Use homunculus In A Sentence

• We've moved from imagining a little homunculus lurking in the sperm to one hiding in the genome.
• As Wilder Penfield discovered in the 1950s, much of the brain is connected not to the sensors along the body's surface (skin, eyes, ears) but instead to a representation of the body (the "homunculus") that is mapped directly onto the surface of the brain. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• The front desk was old-school, too - a weary homunculus behind a desk, reading a newspaper, fetching your key and your messages from the slots behind him.
• Yet other preformationists believed that the sperm contained the embryo and some even claimed to be able to see a tiny human - a homunculus - in the head of each human sperm.
• The word "signals" jumps out: Elsewhere the author criticizes the homunculi little men, making quite difficult determinations, that pervade putative neuroscientific accounts of the mind; there is more than a hint of a homunculus in the notion of neurons that "signal" to one another. Rethinking Thinking
• As grubby and alcoholic as a homunculus can be, he is also a kind, sensitive soul and a musician of some talent.
• The following medical illustration, called a homunculus, is a graphic representation of the large area of the brain that is associated with hand movement. Meditation as Medicine
• It can stand as a kind of homunculus to Penny's full-formed person. An Althouse blog fund-raiser.
• When I finally met the man, a pinched homunculus with nervous eyes and no eyebrows, he pushed me right out of his office.
• The homunculus is the mapping of the body into the motor cortex, which is a portion of the brain located approximately under the portion of the scalp that would be occupied by a Mohawk hairdo. On the Threshold of the Avatar Era