10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMUNCULUS»
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homunculus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
homunculus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In 1870s London, a city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp.
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Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology
Penfield's Motor Homunculus Movements are topographically organized in the
motor cortex. Electrical stimulation of the dorsomedial regions of Ml produces
movements in the lower limbs; stimulation in ventral regions produces
movements in ...
Bryan Kolb, Ian Q. Whishaw, 2009
3
Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems
Note that on this so-called sensory homunculus (homunculus means “little man”),
the different parts of the body are not equally represented. The size of each body
part in this homunculus indicates the relative proportion of the somatosensory ...
The homunculus had made it a reality now. Its hairy balls were beating with life. It
was starting to pulse at the same rate as Snag's breathing and then it creened its
little neck sideways, as if it were looking for the source of the sound. Snag was ...
The homunculus stopped. “Not bad eh, gentlemen?” crowed Jack. The
homunculus wobbled. One of its legs fell off, then an arm. The homunculus
tottered. Then the homunculus folded in on itself and pitched forward. There was
a crackle of ...
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Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas about the Mind
The alchemists' boldest vision was not the discovery of the Philosopher's Stone
or the art of making gold, but the creation of an artificial human being, a
homunculus. For the alchemists, the homunculus represented the dream of '
nature ...
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A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades
Leonardo Quaresima Research on HOMUNCULUS encounters a number of
objective difficulties whose obviousness is in this case no mere ritual. Directed by
Otto Rippert and based on a script by Robert Reinert for Deutsche Bioscop, ...
Thomas Elsaesser, Michael Wedel, 1996
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Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIII
*f Banishing the Control Homunculus Stephen Monsell and Jon Driver
ABSTRACT We define the problem addressed at the eighteenth Attention and
Performance symposium as that of explaining how voluntary control is exerted
over the ...
Stephen Monsell, Jon Driver, 2000
A Homunculus argument accounts for a phenomenon in terms of the very
phenomenon that it is supposed to explain (Richard Gregory (1987)).
Homunculus arguments are always fallacious. In the psychology and philosophy
of mind ...
RobinH, JWSchmidt, Shamantics, Wikibooks contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
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Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science
a little man inside your head (a homunculus) who operates the rules. Sometimes,
euphemisms for the homunculus are used (such as central processing unit or
central executive), but the result is the same: there has to be some observer or ...
Brendan Wallace, Alastair Ross, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMUNCULUS»
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homunculus is used in the context of the following news items.
Peter Saunders Sorts Out Confusion Over "Epigenetics" | Suzan Mazur
This all goes back to the old days of the theory of the homunculus. There were two theories at the time. One was the homunculus, where ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Scott Walker Misunderstands the Iran Nuclear Deal - Esquire
Now that he's running for president, Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
First footage of 'X-Men: Apocalypse,' 'Deadpool' shown | The Bell Jar
McAvoy stated the movie is about obsession, and the connection between Igor and Victor. After a few failed attempts, the homunculus comes to ... «The Bell Jar, Jul 15»
Watching Scotty Blow, Cont'd: The Assassination of Wisconsin …
On May 16, 2012, I wrote this about Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
Homunculus reimagined
The brain area that controls neck muscles used to be between areas that control the thumb and the top of the head (black arrow) but a new ... «Science News, Jul 15»
Watching Scotty Blow, Cont'd: A Shady Budget, a Bad Pipeline, and …
On Monday, Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
From 'Supergirl' to 'Lucifer,' Comic-Con's Pilot Sneak Peek Is Bloody …
He's probably also the only person on network television that could get away with calling someone a homunculus (translation: “short, sweaty, ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
Jeb(!) Bush's Plan for America: We All Need to Work Longer Hours
Meanwhile, Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
Cannabutter: The Universal Family Bong-der
My parents, natives of that social homunculus of a state known as North Carolina, were never too keen on intoxication. The concept of them ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
Watching Scotty Blow, Cont'd: Walker and Pals Give Up on …
... it would have to be Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
