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Left Or Right Hand? Knowing How The Brain Decodes Images Helps Us Understand Amputees’ Phantom Itches

February 14, 2012 by

A new study to be published in the journal Psychological Science challenges the long-held notion that when we see a picture of a left or right hand, our brain engages our "motor imagination" and uses muscle control processes to flip over mental images of our hands to decide which is in the picture...

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