{"id":394,"date":"2009-06-22T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=394"},"modified":"2009-06-22T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:01:18","slug":"brain-adapts-to-prosthetic-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/brain-adapts-to-prosthetic-enhancements","title":{"rendered":"Brain adapts to prosthetic enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ush your teeth, the toothbrush may actually become part of your arm \u2013 at least as far as your brain is concerned. That&#8217;s the conclusion of a study showing perceptions of arm length change after people handle a mechanical tool.  The brain maintains a physical map of the body, with different areas in charge of different body parts. Researchers have suggested that when we use tools, our brains incorporate them into this map.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17346-brain-adapts-to-prosthetic-enhancements.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ush your teeth, the toothbrush may actually become part of your arm \u2013 at least as far as your brain is concerned. That&#8217;s the conclusion of a study showing perceptions of arm length change after people handle a mechanical tool. The brain maintains a physical map of the body, with different areas in charge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}