"As a student and later as a practitioner in the field, I had accepted the homunculus as unquestioned fact. As a professor, I would dutifully teach students that the distorted figure represented a key aspect of brain organization."
- Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Again . . . did anyone think it made sense? At least Dosoanbach (did I spell that correctly?) gets 15 minutes of fame, but did it mean anything?
It was a crude model built with the tools available at the time, I've seen it referenced in research articles and this professor says it was taught in universities so presumably it was.
He was also published in nature along with ~30 other people so I don't think it's about the 15 minutes of fame.
Why doesn't it make sense? Seriously, it was so widely accepted by literally MILLIONS of people because it DOES make sense: clearly my hands are MUCH more dexterous and sensitive than my elbows, my mouth and lips more sensitive than my forehead and having more dedicated brain connections and brain matter explains this nicely.
I first saw this image years ago in Psych 101, and many times since, and not ONCE did it occur to me that this "doesn't make sense".
Most in the field? And most still do. So there's that.