Describe the motor and somatosensory homunculus and explain the importance of studying the mapping of homunculi in the brain
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The homunculus is a distorted body map across the somatosensory and motor cortex. It represents each part of the body sized according to how much space the brain gives to processing information about that body part. Understanding the homunculus helps us understand what parts of the body are prioritized to be more sensitive to touch and pain, are capable of precise and complex movement, and which areas of the body we can expect to be more intricately connected.
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A) same-sex siblings; other-sex siblings B) sisters; brothers C) other-sex siblings; same-sex siblings D) brothers; sisters
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A) even when all predicted paths are significant, there is an overall good fit, and the significance test is as expected, it is possible that there are other patterns of causality that work better. B) only the cause is examined, and comparisons and linkages between the different variables are impossible. C) it cannot be done very easily on a computer. D) path diagrams are rarely accurate and often give a false picture, tending to suggest that the true linkages are among the measured variables, whereas they are usually among the latent variables.