Manfred comments on Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 10 April 2012 07:26:13AM *  26 points [-]

I'd like to see this on the main page.

Anyhow, since you brought up the sensory homunculus, titillating homunculus quote:

Komisaruk also checked what happened when women's nipples were stimulated, and was surprised to find that in addition to the chest area of the cortex lighting up, the genital area was also activated. "When I tell my male neuroscientist colleagues about this, they say: 'Wow, that's an exception to the classical homunculus,'" he says. "But when I tell the women they say: 'Well, yeah?'". (ref)