For almost a century, budding neuroscientists have been taught that the headband-like strip of brain tissue over our ears that controls our movements, called the motor cortex, contains an orderly map ...

We all know what bodies look like from the outside. This cortical homunculus is how your brain sees your body from the inside. In the 1930s, Wilder Penfield performed surgeries on patients with ...

Some things look weird. Others have peculiar characteristics that are not at all visually obvious, like extreme density. Still others earn their strangeness points solely because of bad behavior. It ...

Meredith White is a graduate from Texas A&M University. She writes anime feature articles when she's not reading, writing, or playing Dungeons and Dragons. There are seven homunculi, and they all bear ...