Neuroscience
Study shows direct brain interface between humans
Sometimes, words just complicate things. What if our brains could communicate directly with each other, bypassing the need for language?
Nov 5, 2014
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News tagged with hand
Neuroscience
Amputees discern familiar sensations across prosthetic hand
Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident 4 years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose bumps.
Oct 8, 2014
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Medical research
Amputee feels in real-time with bionic hand wired to nerves (w/ video)
Nine years after an accident caused the loss of his left hand, Dennis Aabo Sørensen from Denmark became the first amputee in the world to feel – in real-time – with a sensory-enhanced prosthetic hand that was surgically ...
Feb 5, 2014
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Neuroscience
Researcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain interface (w/ Video)
(Medical Xpress)—University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control ...
Aug 27, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study shows expectation important component of rubber-hand illusion
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers in Italy has found that expectation is an important component of the famous rubber-hand illusion. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the team ...
Neuroscience
Mind-controlled hand offers hope for the paralysed
Pentagon-backed scientists on Monday announced they had created a robot hand that was the most advanced brain-controlled prosthetic limb ever made.
Dec 17, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Putting the body back into the mind of schizophrenia
A study using a procedure called the rubber hand illusion has found striking new evidence that people experiencing schizophrenia have a weakened sense of body ownership and has produced the first case of a spontaneous, out-of-body ...
Oct 31, 2011
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Neuroscience
Study reveals that the brain's cerebellum can shape cognition
If you reward a monkey with some juice, it will learn which hand to move in response to a specific visual cue—but only if the cerebellum is functioning properly. So say neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School ...
Apr 4, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing on a keyboard
As digital devices progressively replace pen and paper, taking notes by hand is becoming increasingly uncommon in schools and universities. Using a keyboard is recommended because it's often faster than writing by hand. However, ...
Jan 26, 2024
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Biomedical technology
'Smart glove' can boost hand mobility of stroke patients
This month, a group of stroke survivors in B.C. will test a new technology designed to aid their recovery, and ultimately restore use of their limbs and hands.
Jan 16, 2024
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