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//anatomy.yonsei.ac.kr/LWT/images/Homunculus.JPG' cannot be displayed] Interesting findings in neural plasticity, from the weblog of neuroscientist Michael Merzenich. He describes the current status of our understanding of cortical representations of the surface of the body (what has been known as Penrose’s homunculus since its discovery several decades ago), emphasizing findings that show it is plastic in realtime. [thanks, Joel] He finishes with what might be considered to be the neuroscientist’s equivalent of the get-a-bigger-penis spam-mails.