The sensory homunculus is a small figure of a human whose body parts . . . The term homunculus refers to a graphical depiction of the body parts on the surface of the brain There have been sensory and motor homunculi created to help understand the amount of cortical space dedicated to different parts of the body
Spinothalamic Tract Anatomy, Function Impacts of Injury The homunculus is a diagrammatic representation of the sensory cortex of the brain It demonstrates the sensory areas of the brain that correspond to the regions of the body it receives