Sentences with phrase «body representation brain»

Sensory illusion study provides new insight for body representation brain disorders.»

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When the artificial finger and the right index finger were moved synchronously, subjects reported they were holding their own index finger: the brain incorrectly incorporated the artificial finger into its internal body representation.

The human brain uses sensory signals to maintain and update internal representation of the body, to plan and generate movements and interact with the world.

The discovery provides new insight into clinical conditions where body representation in the brain is disrupted due to changes in the central or peripheral nervous systems e.g. stroke, schizophrenia and phantom limb syndrome following amputation.

Because of this curious arrangement, the representation of the world external to the body can come into the brain only via the body itself.

«This test can help hospital staff to objectively determine the extent to which the body representation in the brain has been altered,» he says.

But he can also see the findings gained with this test method helping to stimulate the brain networks responsible for body representation, thus keeping them active.

This impacts the anatomical reconstruction of the body in the brain, known as body representation.

Penfield stimulated the brain with electricity in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery, and used the results to draw a â $ œmotor homunculusâ $: a distorted representation of the human body within the brain.

So, a cortical homunculus is a physical representation of our body within our brain.