kids museums hit differently outside of the puritan US.
(from Parque Explora, Medellin Colombia.)
Sculpture of a naked female figure with massively oversized hands, head, and tongue.
Sculpture of a naked female figure with massively oversized hands, head, and tongue.
Explanation:
Text: Animunculi Grandma, What Big Nose You Have! The human brain assigns a great quantity of its nervous circuits to the most sensible areas: hands, lips and tongue. • When any spot of your body touches an object, the sensation travels until reaching the brain. There, the space assigned for each body part is not proportional to its size but to its sensibility. Sensorial homunculi show this proportion. The same goes when it comes to movement: for the body areas with the greatest mobility, the brain assigns them more area in the motor cortex, as motor homunculi show. What if we did a model for the wolf? We would have a wolf with a big nose!