AR-News: (UK) Brain areas that process reality

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Daniel Moran, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of biomedical 
engineering and neurobiology, and University of Pittsburgh colleagues Andrew 
B. Schwartz, Ph.D., and G. Anthony Reina, M.D., focused on studying perception 
and playing visual tricks on macaque monkeys and some human subjects. 

They created a virtual reality video game to trick the monkeys into thinking 
that they were tracing ellipses with their hands, though they actually were 
moving their hands in a circle. 

They monitored nerve cells in the monkeys enabling them to see what areas of 
the brain represented the circle and which areas represented the ellipse. 

They found that the primary motor cortex represented the actual movement 
while the signals from cells in a neighboring area, called the ventral premotor 
cortex, were generating elliptical shapes. 

Monkey thought it saw, then monkey didn't do. 




full story:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?newsid=5800 

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