Tl;Dr: Your brain’s representation of sensation looks really funny
I’m always fascinated by how we see the world, and how that’s different from how our brains process input. For example – we think we see things like a camera (I see a complete colorful picture of what’s going on around me), but we really only see a tiny a fraction of our field of view clearly.
The Dude above (H. Monculous) is a sculptural representation of how many neurons are mapped to your skin sensations. The hands are huge because we have a lot of sensation there (so more neurons in the brain). I think the model above is for skin sensations, not things like sound or vision.
As per usual, this was all mapped out a long time ago, and apparently people just forgot to do this for women. The nice folks at MIT fixed that in 2021.
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