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That's Not My Hand! How The Brain Can Be Fooled Into Feeling A Fake Limb,
Alphagalileo
 









Excerpts: Scientists have made the first recordings of the human brain's
awareness of its own body, using the illusion of a strategically-placed rubber
hand to trick the brain. Their findings shed light on disorders of
self-perception such as schizophrenia, stroke (...) where sufferers may no
longer recognize their own limbs or may experience pain from missing ones. (...)
found that one area of the brain, the premotor cortex, integrates information
from these different senses to recognize the body. However, because vision tends
to dominate, if information from the senses is inconsistent, the brain
"believes" the visual information over the proprioceptive. (...)
Source: That's Not My Hand! How The Brain Can Be Fooled Into Feeling A Fake
Limb[
http://www.alphagalileo.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=18934
], J. Gimpel - j.gimpelucl.ac.uk, Alphagalileo, 2004/06/29
Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinyahoo.co.in

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