Your brain considers parts of your body the items you hold in your hand

Periskopi

2 January 2020, 07:32(6 years ago)

We often say that the pen or even the mobile phone is like the extension of our hand and that the brain actually sees it that way. He perceives everything that we hold in our hands as if it were an extension of the body that applies to tactical perception. The discovery, which will help develop more prosthetics [...]

He perceives everything that we hold in our hands as if it were an extension of the body that applies to tactical perception.

The discovery, which will help develop the most accurate prosthesis, is published in the current magazine” Biology” by an international think tank.

The study included 16 people who were required to wear a stick in their hands and show things and touch them.

All participants were able to locate the impact almost perfectly, as if the touch were on the side.

At the same time, researchers, using electroencephalography (Eeg), discovered that the position of influence on the instrument had been deciphered by the same regions of the brain that are activated when contact occurs directly to the body, as if the brain applied the tactical perception of the body to objects or objects.

“These results suggest that it will be possible, in the not too distant future, to draw up neuroprothesis less and less invasive”, related Nadia Bologistini, professor of Psycobiology and Physiology.