
The Neuroscience of Phantom Limbs
That Neuroscience Guy
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The Primary Sensory Cortex Is Taking Over Neural Territory
The idea is that the primary area takes over the region for the left arm, but the connections are still to the secondary level representation of the left arm. So when the face is touched, the secondary level of the arm is stimulated. And there's another example of this. There's something called gaze tinnitus. If they look to the left or right, they hear a ringing sound. When the eye neurons fire, they trigger off these damaged auditory nerves and you hear a ringing sounds. This idea of taking over neural territory is quite profound. Now this tells us something else about how our brain works. The idea of body image. It's our basically our internal image. And it's
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