For almost a century, budding neuroscientists have been taught that the headband-like strip of brain tissue over our ears ...

In the early 20th century, pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield made a groundbreaking discovery. While in the operating room, Penfield stimulated ...

The iconic ‘homunculus’ diagram, which shows how the brain controls individual body parts, has been overhauled to include complex movements. Since the 1930s, the diagram has been used to show a brain ...

In a previous post, I drew attention to the parallel between a particular kind of psychotic delusion and the “homuncular thinking” that has recently been found to be beneficial to autistic children.