title: Letter to the Editor: reexamining Penfield's Homunculus.
abstract: Snyder and Whitaker's (2013) discussion of Penfield's homunculus in a recent issue of this journal was stimulating but I believe mistaken in several ways. This letter clarifies the diagram's supposed ambiguity, highlights a largely overlooked problem with improper scaling and challenges the authors' argument for the superiority of the 1950 version of the image.
authors.affiliation: a Emmanuel College , Cambridge , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Zina
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D009445:Neuroanatomy / Q000266:history*; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history*
keywords: Wilder Penfield; homunculus; improper scaling