A medical artist is drawing a representation of the relationship between the somatosensory cortex and the body.What should the drawing of the body look like?
A)The face,hands,and fingers should be disproportionately large.
B)The farther from the brain,the smaller the body part should be.
C)Larger body parts should appear as small,and smaller body parts should appear as large.
D)The right side of the body should be considerably larger than the left side.

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The somatosensory cortex is represented by the "homunculus," which shows body parts with sizes proportional to their sensory representation in the brain, not their actual size. The face, hands, and fingers have a larger representation due to their higher sensory resolution.

A Medical Artist Is Drawing a Representation of the Relationship