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Mapped reported motor and sensory responses elicited during electrical stimulation of exposed human cerebral cortex and summarized their ordered, disproportionate somatic representation.
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The record is the exact two-author 1937 Brain paper. Its maps aggregate observations from surgical patients and the techniques of the period; they are not an invariant one-to-one anatomical atlas, and later homunculus drawings and reinterpretations remain separate.
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- Oxford DOI for Penfield-Boldrey cortical mapping
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Wilder Penfield; Edwin Boldrey
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Penfield and Boldrey: somatic motor and sensory representation in human cortex
Mapped reported motor and sensory responses elicited during electrical stimulation of exposed human cerebral cortex and summarized their ordered, disproportionate somatic representation.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1937 Brain paper. Its maps aggregate observations from surgical patients and the techniques of the period; they are not an invariant one-to-one anatomical atlas, and later homunculus drawings and reinterpretations remain separate.
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People and systems
Wilder Penfield; Edwin Boldrey
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.