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One Big Icecream For Mr Cortex

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Well, the other day I remembered when I was a student of the anathomy class at med school, and we studied the Cortical Homunculus... and that inspired me to do this painting in Photoshop.. hope you like it =)

A cortical homunculus is a physical representation of the primary motor cortex, the portion of the human brain directly responsible for the movement and exchange of sense and motor information (touch sensitivity, cold, heat, pain etc.) of the rest of the body.

The resulting image is a grotesquely disfigured human with disproportionately huge hands, lips, and face in comparison to the rest of the body. Because of the fine motor skills and sense nerves found in these particular parts of the body they are represented as being larger on the homunculus. A part of the body with fewer sensory and/or motor connections to the brain is represented to appear smaller.

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It's... adorable! Definitely deserving of ice cream. Thank you for sharing.