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Our Brains Can Adapt To Having A Robotic ‘Third Thumb’ With Incredible Ease – IFLScience
It turns out humans are a dab hand at using a robotic ‘third thumb’, suggests a recent experiment that saw people learning to use a specially designed robo
It turns out humans are a dab hand at using a robotic “third thumb”, suggests a recent experiment that saw people learning to use a specially designed robotic extra thumb. Not only did they master the use of the extra thumb with surprising ease, but scans also showed their brain had quickly adapted to manage the new skill.
The study by neuroscientists at University College London (UCL) was published in the journal Science Robotics this week.
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