Hand study reveals brain's distorted body model

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 10:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Our brains contain a highly distorted model of our own bodies, according to researchers. A new study on the brain's representation of the hand found that our model of our bodies is out of sync with reality -- with a strong tendency to think that the hands are shorter and fatter than their true shape.

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