Validation of the Cortical Homunculus Using Functional Mri
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The motor strip in the frontal lobe of the Human Brain is responsible for all bodily movements or “motor functions”. In this paper we attempt to map the motor cortex of the Human Brain using fMRI data. The advantages of mapping it are several fold ranging from therapy to epilepsy and stroke patients, to understanding the development of these motor functions from birth. We try to recreate the homunculus, a concept which showed how the real estate of the motor cortex was distributed across these motor functions.
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