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QotW - 25.06.06 - What sense takes up the most brain capacity?

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QotW - 25.06.06 - What sense takes up the most brain capacity?
« on: 30/05/2025 12:30:51 »
David writes, 'How much do the senses take up in brain capacity and what sense occupies the largest part of the brain (I would guess it would be sight?)'
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Re: QotW - 25.06.06 - What sense takes up the most brain capacity?
« Reply #1 on: 30/05/2025 17:31:03 »
I think you have the answer already, the visual cortex occupies quite a lot of the brain.
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Re: QotW - 25.06.06 - What sense takes up the most brain capacity?
« Reply #2 on: 30/05/2025 22:19:55 »
I was under the impression that bipedal motion actually requires most processing power. Getting a bipedal robot to stand still is remarkably difficult, and possibly more complicated than getting it to run!
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Re: QotW - 25.06.06 - What sense takes up the most brain capacity?
« Reply #3 on: 31/05/2025 17:32:19 »

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Brain body size gives a rough correlation, as you can see humans are outliers
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Re: QotW - 25.06.06 - What sense takes up the most brain capacity?
« Reply #4 on: 09/06/2025 09:43:26 »
A very visual way of representing brainpower consumption is with the "cortical homunculus", which maps parts of the body onto the part of the brain which senses and/or controls that part of the body.

However, this seems to be taken as a slice through the brain, roughly from ear to ear; in this slice, the hands represent a large fraction of the brain. This mapping does not include the large visual cortex, which lies at the rear of the brain.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
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