"Bend your ear." "Grasping at straws." "Kick the bucket." English is filled with figurative language that makes meaning by evoking physical actions of the human body.
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Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy, a movement disorder that affects use of one side of the body, showed improved use of the arm and hand after receiving a high dose of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Sensorimotor issues aren't well understood in people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, yet they are important because they can be observed before social and communication indicators for the disorder, and they can predict ...
Aug 12, 2021
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A new study from researchers at the University of Chicago has found that neuronal population dynamics in the motor cortex are very different during reaching and grasping behavior, challenging a popular theory that indicated ...
Nov 17, 2020
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A genius game controller helping stroke patients get back hand and arm movement by playing on the computer is set to start tests in a stroke unit.
Sep 30, 2020
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When people move their hands and arms while using their voices, listeners are able to hear it. Even without seeing the messenger, we can pick up each other's body language. Wim Pouw of the Donders Institute of Radboud University ...
May 13, 2020
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Restoration of lost motor function after stroke is typically accomplished after strenuous rehabilitation therapy lasting for over months. However, new research published by a group led by Yukio Nishimura, the project leader ...
Jan 7, 2020
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Hand movements (and not especially lip movements, as is often thought) are the best way to recognise language in noisy situations. The best solution is a combination of lip and hand movements. This is the conclusion of a ...
May 3, 2019
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A brain-machine interface that combines brain stimulation with a robotic device controlling hand movement increases the output of pathways connecting the brain and spinal cord, according to a study of healthy adults published ...
Jan 15, 2018
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Picking up a slice of pizza or sending a text message: Scientists long believed that the brain signals for those and related movements originated from motor areas in the frontal lobe of brain, which control voluntary movement.
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