Table 2 The actual physical size, sensory and motor representational sizes, and average logarithmic word frequencies per million across all 30 languages for the 25 body parts investigated in this study (for detailed descriptions, see the Methods sections for Study 2 and 3).
From: Language statistics as a window into mental representations
Body part | Actual size | Sensory representation | Motor representation | Word frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
(% Body surface) | # Cortical stimulation points | log(WF per million) | ||
Ankle | 1.04 | – | 0.93 | 1.336 |
Arm | 4.00 | 5.32 | – | 4.567 |
Back | 13.00 | – | 0.47 | 4.090 |
Brow | 0.08 | – | 0.80 | 1.829 |
Elbow | 1.26 | 0.70 | 5.25 | 1.558 |
Eye | 0.20 | 0.68 | 2.71 | 5.402 |
Face | 2.14 | 4.12 | – | 5.152 |
Finger | 0.86 | 7.65 | 3.77 | 3.822 |
Foot | 3.50 | 0.92 | – | 4.897 |
Forearm | 3.00 | 1.90 | – | 0.976 |
Hand | 2.50 | 10.68 | 10.67 | 6.032 |
Hip | 4.30 | 1.04 | 0.97 | 1.631 |
Jaw | 1.12 | – | 3.45 | 1.480 |
Jaw and teeth | 1.37 | 4.39 | – | 4.144 |
Knee | 2.32 | – | 1.16 | 2.985 |
Leg | 16.50 | 2.57 | – | 4.297 |
Lip | 0.07 | 5.90 | 7.92 | 3.065 |
Nose | 0.13 | 0.90 | – | 3.558 |
Shoulder | 1.94 | 1.49 | 1.96 | 3.288 |
Throat | 1.00 | 1.40 | – | 2.613 |
Thumb | 0.30 | 3.79 | 2.34 | 1.687 |
Toe | 0.62 | 0.64 | 0.94 | 2.268 |
Tongue | 0.16 | 9.52 | 1.62 | 4.154 |
Trunk | 13.00 | 2.04 | – | 2.058 |
Wrist | 0.40 | 0.75 | 3.30 | 1.641 |
