They show how much of the brain is devoted to the body part in question - combining both sensory and motor processing. I'd imagine that both ears and nose would be a lot bigger, in such a map of a cat, than their relative size in humans.
And it would completely obscure the fact that, while a kitty nose is a sensitive organ of smell, the the skin at the tip of the nose is also quite a sensitive organ of touch.
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They show how much of the brain is devoted to the body part in question - combining both sensory and motor processing. I'd imagine that both ears and nose would be a lot bigger, in such a map of a cat, than their relative size in humans.
And it would completely obscure the fact that, while a kitty nose is a sensitive organ of smell, the the skin at the tip of the nose is also quite a sensitive organ of touch.
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